A. The American Flag... It's a symbol worthy of or deepest respect because it stands for a nation and community that is strong, a community strong enough to tolerate diversity and the rights of those expressing unpopular views, even if they are expressing them in an offensive but non-violent manner.
             B. A change to the first amendment of the constitution is an utterly ridiculous idea. Our country was founded upon the basic principles held within the bill of rights, principles that have held strong for over 200 years. The first amendment was set up to protect popular and unpopular viewpoints alike. If an individual protests the government by burning the American flag, it is that individual's right to do so.
             A. Our opponent's claim that burning the American flag is a way of showing that your rights don't matter to you. This could not be any further from the truth. By burning the American flag, you are exercising your right to free speech as well as your right to protest the government. By recommending that burning the flag be made illegal, you are showing that your right to freedom of speech does not matter to you.
             B. Our opponents have also suggested that there are better ways of symbolic speech than burning the flag. This suggestion is completely absurd. What evidence have they given to prove that other ways of protesting are more effective? It seems to us that this is just a biased opinion that is being presented as fact.
             C. Keeping consistent with the topic of illogical claims made by our opponents, they stated that burning the flag usually causes someone to react violently which breaks the peace among the people. We must be missing many of these violent reactions because there have been thousands of flag burnings in our history and only a few occasions are noted where violent outbreaks have occurred.
             D. Our opponents argued that flag burning is disrespect
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