I don’t think there’s anything terribly wrong with a flag-burning amendment, but I really don’t see the point at this time. Sorry, maybe I can read something which angers-up my blood one way or the other. But this one seems like a yawner to me. In fact, since I doubt it would actually stop flag-burning — at least not any more successfully than an anti-open-fire statute of some kind — I could see it leading to the trivialization of the constitution in the long run. Also, I generally like my additions to the Bill of Rights to be framed in terms of what Congress can’t do, not what it can.

Regardless, my favorite solution, if memory serves, was when Louisiana declared it would fine people who beat-up flag burners $25. So a bunch of folks pre-paid the fine and carried the receipts as flag-burning permits.