Reach and Teach - West Virginia Board of Education v Barnette (1943)

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West Virginia Board of Education v Barnette (1943)

A student can't be forced to say the "Pledge of Allegiance" or salute the flag

Decided:	June 14, 1943
Issue(s):	School
Increases:	Expression, 1st and 14th amendments
Decreases:
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"

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Judge rules Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional in public schools (SFgate.com, 9/15/2005)
House bill would block Supreme Court on pledge (CNN.com, 9/23/2004)
Supreme Court rejects pledge ("under God") challenge (CNN.com, 8/23/2004)
Court dismisses pledge case (CNN.com,6/15/2004)
Skeptical Supreme Court weighs pledge case (CNN.com, 6/14/2004)

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Lunacy of Pledge Protection Act (Opinion CNN.com, 9/23/2004)
Background material on Pledge of Allegiance (tolerance.org)
"False Promises - The Real History of Our Pledge" (sermon, fprespa.org)

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