5. Even though most people finding the burning of the American flag objectionable, it is protected under the First Amendment. Why should the right to so such a thing be protected? Explain.

This is a very controversial topic, The First Amendment states that we are given the freedom of expression, Some say that the Burning of the American flag is considered as expressing yourself, and thus, should be protected. This was written in Texas V.S. Johnson, which based their opinion on the opinion of the cases Stromberg v California, and Tinker v Des Moines, which showed t that non-verbal expression was still protected under the 1st amendment.  

more people will not obey the law or vice vice versa

explanation: the answer really speaks for itself if the number of prisoners are going up then that means that more people will not obey the law and if less people are going to prison then that means that more people are obeying the law.