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From the 108th Congress

• Flag amendment would send a distressing message.
• It would be the amendment that desecrates the flag (an op-ed by Dennis W. Archer, president, American Bar Association)
• An open letter on the flag burning amendment by Gary May, president, Veterans Defending the Bill of Rights
• An op-ed by Ken Paulson, executive director of the First Amendment Center.
• An editorial that appeared on Sunday, May 25, 2003, in The News Leader, Staunton, Va.
• An editorial that appeared on Tuesday, May 6, 2003, in The News Leader, Staunton, Va.
• An editorial that appeared in The Daily Herald in Provo, Utah.

From the 106th Congress

• A letter from Gen. Colin Powell to Sen. Leahy explaining his opposition to the flag amendment
• A statement from FOI Chair Paul Tash on the flag amendment
• A story from the Grand Forks (N.D.) Herald on two senators' change of heart
• Newspaper editors, citing free speech, oppose flag amendment
• Douglas C. Clifton to the House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Committee on the Judiciary on H.J. Res. 33

• Stan Tiner's testimony to the Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution, Federalism and Property Rights regarding S.J. 40
• Tiner's editor column in The Mobile (Ala.) Register

• Congress shouldn’t amend the Bill of Rights to “protect” the American flag by Robert H. Giles

• Editorials from newspapers around the country have been written about the amendment
  • Here is a summary of when and where they appeared
• Here is a sampling of a few dozen
• News Analysis
• Flag vote to be close, but is it necessary? by Bill Adair, Washington correspondent, St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times (1999)
• The Freedom Forum's collection of flag amendment material