 | Neal Devins, Louis Fisher - 2004 - 320 páginas
...6-3 majority, Justice Robert Jackson condemned efforts to coerce uniformity and reminded the nation that "no official, high or petty, can prescribe what...citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein." Jackson's defense of religious freedom and the Bill of Rights was powerful and moving, but credit for... | |
 | Sibyl A. Schwarzenbach, Patricia Smith - 2003 - 424 páginas
...Exercise Clause. In an oftquoted passage, the Supreme Court declared that the Free Exercise Clause means that "no official, high or petty, can prescribe what...force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein."25 The principle underlying this constitutional provision— that citizens should not be disadvantaged... | |
 | Patrick J. Wolf, Stephen Macedo - 2004 - 428 páginas
...unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard" and his ringing proclamation that "if there is any fixed star in our constitutional...politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion."12 At the same time, we recognize that Justice Jackson's stirring rhetoric cannot, in the... | |
 | Jamin B. Raskin - 2004 - 316 páginas
...the people." Id. 129. See West Virginia Bd. of Educ. v. Barnette, 319 US 624, 642 (1943) (stating: "If there is any fixed star in our constitutional...can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics."); see also Denver Area Educ. Telecom. Consortium v. FCC, 116 S. Ct. 2374, 2405 (1996) (Kennedy, J., concurring... | |
 | William F. Jr Cox - 2004 - 558 páginas
...for anyone else. Justice Jackson said the same thing in the 1943 Board of Education v. Barnette case: "If there is any fixed star in our constitutional...or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in ... religion..." (Neuhaus, 1974). As stated by Justice Douglas in United States v. Ballard (1944),... | |
 | Donald T. Dickson - 2010 - 662 páginas
...test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order. If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation,...high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in***religion***or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein." West Virginia Bd.... | |
 | Daniel A. Farber, Suzanna Sherry - 2004 - 221 páginas
...that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, or religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein." 79 In 1969, the Supreme Court formally adopted this speech-protective position, holding that the government... | |
 | John Harris - 2004 - 206 páginas
...the Court explained in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette. 319 US 624. 642 (1943): If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official . . . can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of... | |
 | Michael Les Benedict, John F. Winkler - 2004 - 959 páginas
...fixed star in our constitutional constellation," the justices intoned, "it is that no official . . . can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion."294 Fourteen years later (1957), the Court applied the same principle to artistic endeavor,... | |
 | Robert Jewett, John Shelton Lawrence - 2004 - 412 páginas
...test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order. If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no otficial, high or petty, can prescribe who shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or... | |
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If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their... 
