Public decency, obscenity and desecration are offenses of shocking public feeling. Obscenity is a category of speech unprotected by the First Amendment, judged by the three-part Miller v. California test, and all fifty states have laws on obscene material. Indecent exposure is revealing one's genitals in public in a manner likely to offend others, and is a misdemeanor in most states. Desecration of a national symbol is addressed by 18 U.S. Code section 700, which provides a fine or up to a year in prison for whoever knowingly mutilates, defaces, physically defiles, burns, maintains on the floor or ground, or tramples upon a flag of the United States.
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Cornell LII Wex: Obscenity
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Obscenity is a category of speech that is unprotected by the First Amendment's Freedom of Speech and Expression protections.
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Obscenity is a category of speech that is unprotected by the First Amendment's Freedom of Speech and Expression protections.
View the SourceCornell LII Wex: Indecent Exposure
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Indecent exposure is the act of revealing one's genitals in public in a manner that is likely to offend others.
Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School: 18 U.S. Code 700, Desecration of the flag of the United States
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Whoever knowingly mutilates, defaces, physically defiles, burns, maintains on the floor or ground, or tramples upon any flag of the United States
Flag desecration (Wikipedia)
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Flag desecration is the desecration of a flag, violation of flag protocol, or various acts that intentionally destroy, damage, or mutilate a flag in public.
Department of Justice Canada (Justice Laws Website): Criminal Code, section 173
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Everyone who wilfully does an indecent act in a public place in the presence of one or more persons, or in any place with intent to insult or offend any person, (a) is guilty of an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than two years; or (b) is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.
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