But if the Government may create private proprietary interests in written work and in musical and theatrical performances by virtue of copyright laws. I see no reason why it may not ... create a similar governmental interest in the flag by prohibiting even those who have purchased the physical object from impairing its physical integrity. For what they have purchased is not merely cloth dyed red. white. and blue. but also the one visible manifestation of 200 years of nationhooda history compiled by generations of our forefathers and contributed to by streams of immigrants from the four corners of the globe. which has traveled a course since the time of this countrys origin that could not have been "foreseen ... by the most gifted of its begetters." Mr. Speaker. I reserve the balance of my time.
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