All political
leaders pursue policies that are disliked by some citizens. In America,
citizens occasionally protest disliked policies by publicly burning an American
flag.
After such incidents, numbers of other citizens sometimes demand that political leaders amend the Constitution to make such acts of disrespect fundamentally illegal.
In her book, Miss Manners® Rescues Civilization (1996), author Judith Martin questions the wisdom of both that protest and that demand. She does this in the name of freedom.