Burning Flags and Crosses

Through an analysis of Texas v. Johnson (1989) and R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul (1992), we explore the Supreme Court's insistence that the "bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment" is that "the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea offensive or disagreeable."

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The 1787 Project is the podcast version of the lectures for Professor Justin Dyer's socially-distanced class on the U.S. Constitution at the University of Missouri. Running from August 2020 - May 2021, the course is about how the U.S. Constitution of 1787 frames the way we organize our life together as a political community. Published twice a week, the episodes explore who gets to decide big questions of public policy and why, analyze the design of our national political institutions and the contested boundaries between them, and look at the structure of constitutional rights.