Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States giving Congress power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States.

House Joint Resolution 51 proposes an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would grant Congress the formal authority to pass laws prohibiting the physical desecration of the American flag. If ratified, this amendment would effectively overturn previous Supreme Court rulings that protected flag burning and other forms of desecration as symbolic speech under the First Amendment. For the average citizen, this change would mean that damaging or destroying a U.S. flag in protest could become a federal crime subject to legal penalties.