stephanie
10-04-2007, 03:42 AM
Oct 3, 2007 10:42 AM
Team Coverage of the Immigration Is
The ACLU of Nevada is concerned about recent media reports that it is "illegal" to fly foreign flags over the U.S. flag.
While there is indeed a federal law regulating the display of the U.S. flag, that law is merely advisory and simply codifies standard government practice in displaying the American flag.
Several federal courts have examined this law and held that the flag rules are not mandatory and cannot be enforced. Indeed, if the federal flag rules were mandatory, they would clearly violate the First Amendment, which protects every American's right to speak and express themselves, including their choice of flag to display.
In 1989, the Supreme Court held that we even have the right to burn our own flag, which had been outlawed by 48 states. Our robust and meaningful democracy is built upon our First Amendment, which protects our right to express ourselves even when - indeed, particularly when - that expression is distasteful or unpopular.
We at the ACLU wholeheartedly support the First Amendment rights of all, and this includes the right of the press to publish stories as they see fit. Of course, this right necessarily means that sometimes the media may get it wrong.
However, we urge the media to take the opportunity to correct misinformation, especially about our rights and the criminal law.
The media is a powerful tool in informing the public, and this is an opportunity to tell the world that the First Amendment is alive and well, and protects everyone's right to fly whatever flag they wish on their property.
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Nukeman
10-04-2007, 06:48 AM
For those of you who dont know the full code I will post it here.
There was a great deal of thought put into this for every situation. Some here really need to know the main points. I will say it is impossible to "know" the whole code but if your living in the US you should at least know the primary points and display regulations of the US Flag. This is a long one but I feel well worth the read!!
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-CITE-
4 USC Sec. 7 01/02/2006
-EXPCITE-
TITLE 4 - FLAG AND SEAL, SEAT OF GOVERNMENT, AND THE STATES
CHAPTER 1 - THE FLAG
-HEAD-
Sec. 7. Position and manner of display
-STATUTE-
The flag, when carried in a procession with another flag or
flags, should be either on the marching right; that is, the flag's
own right, or, if there is a line of other flags, in front of the
center of that line.
(a) The flag should not be displayed on a float in a parade
except from a staff, or as provided in subsection (i) of this
section.
(b) The flag should not be draped over the hood, top, sides, or
back of a vehicle or of a railroad train or a boat. When the flag
is displayed on a motorcar, the staff shall be fixed firmly to the
chassis or clamped to the right fender.
(c) No other flag or pennant should be placed above or, if on the
same level, to the right of the flag of the United States of
America, except during church services conducted by naval chaplains
at sea, when the church pennant may be flown above the flag during
church services for the personnel of the Navy. No person shall
display the flag of the United Nations or any other national or
international flag equal, above, or in a position of superior
prominence or honor to, or in place of, the flag of the United
States at any place within the United States or any Territory or
possession thereof: Provided, That nothing in this section shall
make unlawful the continuance of the practice heretofore followed
of displaying the flag of the United Nations in a position of
superior prominence or honor, and other national flags in positions
of equal prominence or honor, with that of the flag of the United
States at the headquarters of the United Nations.
(d) The flag of the United States of America, when it is
displayed with another flag against a wall from crossed staffs,
should be on the right, the flag's own right, and its staff should
be in front of the staff of the other flag.
(e) The flag of the United States of America should be at the
center and at the highest point of the group when a number of flags
of States or localities or pennants of societies are grouped and
displayed from staffs.
(f) When flags of States, cities, or localities, or pennants of
societies are flown on the same halyard with the flag of the United
States, the latter should always be at the peak. When the flags are
flown from adjacent staffs, the flag of the United States should be
hoisted first and lowered last. No such flag or pennant may be
placed above the flag of the United States or to the United States
flag's right.
(g) When flags of two or more nations are displayed, they are to
be flown from separate staffs of the same height. The flags should
be of approximately equal size. International usage forbids the
display of the flag of one nation above that of another nation in
time of peace.
(h) When the flag of the United States is displayed from a staff
projecting horizontally or at an angle from the window sill,
balcony, or front of a building, the union of the flag should be
placed at the peak of the staff unless the flag is at half-staff.
When the flag is suspended over a sidewalk from a rope extending
from a house to a pole at the edge of the sidewalk, the flag should
be hoisted out, union first, from the building.
(i) When displayed either horizontally or vertically against a
wall, the union should be uppermost and to the flag's own right,
that is, to the observer's left. When displayed in a window, the
flag should be displayed in the same way, with the union or blue
field to the left of the observer in the street.
(j) When the flag is displayed over the middle of the street, it
should be suspended vertically with the union to the north in an
east and west street or to the east in a north and south street.
(k) When used on a speaker's platform, the flag, if displayed
flat, should be displayed above and behind the speaker. When
displayed from a staff in a church or public auditorium, the flag
of the United States of America should hold the position of
superior prominence, in advance of the audience, and in the
position of honor at the clergyman's or speaker's right as he faces
the audience. Any other flag so displayed should be placed on the
left of the clergyman or speaker or to the right of the audience.
(l) The flag should form a distinctive feature of the ceremony of
unveiling a statue or monument, but it should never be used as the
covering for the statue or monument.
(m) The flag, when flown at half-staff, should be first hoisted
to the peak for an instant and then lowered to the half-staff
position. The flag should be again raised to the peak before it is
lowered for the day. On Memorial Day the flag should be displayed
at half-staff until noon only, then raised to the top of the staff.
By order of the President, the flag shall be flown at half-staff
upon the death of principal figures of the United States Government
and the Governor of a State, territory, or possession, as a mark of
respect to their memory. In the event of the death of other
officials or foreign dignitaries, the flag is to be displayed at
half-staff according to Presidential instructions or orders, or in
accordance with recognized customs or practices not inconsistent
with law. In the event of the death of a present or former official
of the government of any State, territory, or possession of the
United States, the Governor of that State, territory, or possession
may proclaim that the National flag shall be flown at half-staff.
The flag shall be flown at half-staff 30 days from the death of the
President or a former President; 10 days from the day of death of
the Vice President, the Chief Justice or a retired Chief Justice of
the United States, or the Speaker of the House of Representatives;
from the day of death until interment of an Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court, a Secretary of an executive or military
department, a former Vice President, or the Governor of a State,
territory, or possession; and on the day of death and the following
day for a Member of Congress. The flag shall be flown at half-staff
on Peace Officers Memorial Day, unless that day is also Armed
Forces Day. As used in this subsection -
(1) the term "half-staff" means the position of the flag when
it is one-half the distance between the top and bottom of the
staff;
(2) the term "executive or military department" means any
agency listed under sections 101 and 102 of title 5, United
States Code; and
(3) the term "Member of Congress" means a Senator, a
Representative, a Delegate, or the Resident Commissioner from
Puerto Rico.
(n) When the flag is used to cover a casket, it should be so
placed that the union is at the head and over the left shoulder.
The flag should not be lowered into the grave or allowed to touch
the ground.
(o) When the flag is suspended across a corridor or lobby in a
building with only one main entrance, it should be suspended
vertically with the union of the flag to the observer's left upon
entering. If the building has more than one main entrance, the flag
should be suspended vertically near the center of the corridor or
lobby with the union to the north, when entrances are to the east
and west or to the east when entrances are to the north and south.
If there are entrances in more than two directions, the union
should be to the east.
-SOURCE-
(Added Pub. L. 105-225, Sec. 2(a), Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1495.)
-MISC1-
HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES
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Revised Source (U.S. Code) Source (Statutes at Large)
Section
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7 36:175. June 22, 1942, ch. 435, Sec.
3, 56 Stat. 378; Dec. 22,
1942, ch. 806, Sec. 3, 56
Stat. 1075; July 9, 1953,
ch. 183, 67 Stat. 142; July
7, 1976, Pub. L. 94-344,
(6)-(11), 90 Stat. 811;
Sept. 13, 1994, Pub. L.
103-322, title XXXII, Sec.
320922(b), 108 Stat. 2131.
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-EXEC-
PROC. NO. 3044. DISPLAY OF FLAG AT HALF-STAFF UPON DEATH OF CERTAIN
OFFICIALS AND FORMER OFFICIALS
Proc. No. 3044, Mar. 1, 1954, 19 F.R. 1235, as amended by Proc.
No. 3948, Dec. 12, 1969, 34 F.R. 19699, provided:
WHEREAS it is appropriate that the flag of the United States of
America be flown at half-staff on Federal buildings, grounds, and
facilities upon the death of principal officials and former
officials of the Government of the United States and the Governors
of the States, Territories, and possessions of the United States as
a mark of respect to their memory; and
WHEREAS it is desirable that rules be prescribed for the uniform
observance of this mark of respect by all executive departments and
agencies of the Government, and as a guide to the people of the
Nation generally on such occasions:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United
States of America and Commander in Chief of the armed forces of the
United States, do hereby prescribe and proclaim the following rules
with respect to the display of the flag of the United States of
America at half-staff upon the death of the officials hereinafter
designated:
1. The flag of the United States shall be flown at half-staff on
all buildings, grounds, and naval vessels of the Federal Government
in the District of Columbia and throughout the United States and
its Territories and possessions for the period indicated upon the
death of any of the following-designated officials or former
officials of the United States:
(a) The President or a former President: for thirty days from the
day of death.
The flag shall also be flown at half-staff for such period at all
United States embassies, legations, and other facilities abroad,
including all military facilities and naval vessels and stations.
(b) The Vice President, the Chief Justice or a retired Chief
Justice of the United States, or the Speaker of the House of
Representatives: for ten days from the day of death.
(c) An Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, a member of the
Cabinet, a former Vice President, the President pro tempore of the
Senate, the Majority Leader of the Senate, the Minority Leader of
the Senate, the Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, or
the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives: from the day
of death until interment.
2. The flag of the United States shall be flown at half-staff on
all buildings, grounds, and naval vessels of the Federal Government
in the metropolitan area of the District of Columbia on the day of
death and on the following day upon the death of a United States
Senator, Representative, Territorial Delegate, or the Resident
Commissioner from the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and it shall
also be flown at half-staff on all buildings, grounds, and naval
vessels of the Federal Government in the State, Congressional
District, Territory, or Commonwealth of such Senator,
Representative, Delegate, or Commissioner, respectively, from the
day of death until interment.
3. The flag of the United States shall be flown at half-staff on
all buildings and grounds of the Federal Government in a State,
Territory, or possession of the United States upon the death of the
Governor of such State, Territory, or possession from the day of
death until interment.
4. In the event of the death of other officials, former
officials, or foreign dignitaries, the flag of the United States
shall be displayed at half-staff in accordance with such orders or
instructions as may be issued by or at the direction of the
President, or in accordance with recognized customs or practices
not inconsistent with law.
5. The heads of the several departments and agencies of the
Government may direct that the flag of the United States be flown
at half-staff on buildings, grounds, or naval vessels under their
jurisdiction on occasions other than those specified herein which
they consider proper, and that suitable military honors be rendered
as appropriate.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the
Seal of the United States of America to be affixed.
DONE at the City of Washington this 1st day of March in the year
of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the one hundred
and seventy-eighth.
[seal]
Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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