| Read the text of the case More details: It's unconstitutional to punish a student for refusing to salute the flag and recite the "pledge of allegiance" since "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 faith therein." The Court also said, "The Fourteenth Amendment, as now applied to the States, protects the citizen against the State itself and all of its creatures" |
