Question

The Supreme Court (select one): a. has ruled that even forms of symbolic speech considered to be dangerous to the public are protected. b. ruled during the Vietnam war that the burning of draft registration cards was a protected form of symbolic speech. c. has reduced its protections of symbolic speech dramatically, and recently has ruled against flag burning as a form of protected symbolic speech. d. has protected symbolic speech much more substantially than it has protected verbal speech. e. has generally protected symbolic speech, though less substantially than it has protected verbal speech.

Answer 1

Answer:

The Supreme Court c. has reduced its protections of symbolic speech dramatically, and recently has ruled against flag burning as a form of protected symbolic speech.

Explanation:

Symbolic speech includes actions and visual aid designed to deliver specific messages regarding certain matter to the people who view products of symbolic speech. For example, political posters with caricatures constitute a symbolic speech.  

As a result of United States v. O’Brien case (1968), the Supreme Court have decided that symbolic speech has to be more regulated, because it involves actions but not only verbal expressions, such as burning a flag.