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Ian O’Shaughnessy

Quotes · Justice Robert Jackson

“If there is any fixed star in our Constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what will be orthodox, in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith in it.”

– Justice Robert Jackson, majority opinion in West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette, 1943

From volume II of the file · Book · 20th century

Themes: miscellaneous