{"id":12302,"date":"2025-12-10T17:57:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T22:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/?p=12302"},"modified":"2025-12-10T17:57:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T22:57:58","slug":"discussion-9-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/2025\/12\/10\/discussion-9-1-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion 9.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"adn ads\" data-message-id=\"#msg-f:1851163767580003249\" data-legacy-message-id=\"19b0a7a383ae0bb1\">\n<div class=\"gs\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div id=\":24\" class=\"ii gt\">\n<div id=\":1g\" class=\"a3s aiL\">\n<div id=\"avWBGd-39\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>The reading in section 4.2 on securing basic freedoms explains how the Establishment Clause and the Lemon Test were created and how they work. The Establishment Clause was created to protect religious freedom by prohibiting Congress from participating in or supporting any religion. The Lemon Test was later developed by the Supreme Court to decide whether a law or government action that might promote a particular religious practice should be allowed to stand.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Based on the readings, yes, burning the U.S. flag is protected by the First Amendment because it counts as freedom of speech. For example, as stated in the text about Johnson v. Texas, Johnson was arrested and charged with desecration of a venerated object after burning the flag. Five years later, the Supreme Court decided that Johnson\u2019s action burning the flag was protected by the First Amendment.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n<p>When someone says, &#8220;I&#8217;m taking the Fifth,&#8221; they mean they have the right to remain silent and not testify, as protected by the Fifth Amendment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ajx\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gA gt acV\">\n<div class=\"gB xu\">\n<div class=\"mVCoBd\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ip iq\">\n<div class=\"pLw6bb\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"avWBGd-41\" class=\"bJvOmf\">\n<table class=\"cf wS\" style=\"height: 46px\" role=\"presentation\" width=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"amq\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"amr\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reading in section 4.2 on securing basic freedoms explains how the Establishment Clause and the Lemon Test were created and how they work. The Establishment Clause was created to protect religious freedom by prohibiting Congress from participating in or supporting any religion. The Lemon Test was later developed by the Supreme Court to decide&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10964,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion-board-9-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10964"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12303,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12302\/revisions\/12303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}