Texas v. Johnson

Glossary

• desecration an act of showing disrespect toward an object normally accorded a much higher degree of respect
• expressive conduct actions intended to illustrate a point rather than as an end in themselves
• Fort McHenry a Baltimore military facility where British and American ships fought a naval battle in September 1814, inspiring Francis Scott Key, who observed it firsthand, to write “The Star-Spangled Banner"
• gainsaid denied
• implicated on dependant on
• joust of principles a battle between competing ideas
• juridical relating to the law
• moment importance or significance
• noncommunicative conduct conduct that does not serve to express a political meaning
• pregnant with expressive content filled with symbolic meaning
• proscribe prohibit
• referents those things to which a symbol refers