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What was the case of Texas v. Johnson (1989) about? What was the ruling?

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Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397, was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held, 5–4, that burning the American flag was protected speech under the First Amendment to the Constitution, as doing so counts as symbolic speech and political speech.
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