Do any recent Supreme Court decisions deserve to be overturned by amending the Constitution?
Many recent Supreme Court decisions have been controversial. Research one or more famous decisions from the last forty years and consider whether the Constitution ought to be changed in light of the Court’s decision. [The links below are to the Oyez Project of Northwestern University. Oyez provides summaries of important Supreme Court cases, links to the full text of the decision, and RealAudio recordings of oral argument.] Reno v. ACLU (1997) The Court ruled that certain provisions of the 1996 Communications Decency Act which criminalized some types of internet communications violated the First and Fifth Amendments. Texas v. Johnson (1989) The Court ruled that the desecration of an American flag, by burning or otherwise, is a form of speech that is protected under the First Amendment. Bowers v. Hardwick (1986) The Court upheld a Georgia law making some forms of consensual sex illegal, holding that the Constitution does not confer a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sex. Buckle
