This law prohibited any display of “contempt” directed against the flag. Later, in 1968, Congress responded to the burning of the American flag in Central Park as a protest against the Vietnam War bypassing the Federal Flag Desecration Law. Most early flag desecration statutes prohibited:
Supreme Court ruling on flag desecration was passed in 1907 in the Halter vs. Interesting that the burning of the flag has been against the law until 1969.
