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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...

Prayer in Public Schools and Buildings--federal Court Jurisdiction: Hearings ... - Page 846
by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice - 1981 - 976 pages
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 445

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1979 - 996 pages

...The Court suggests that its decision is mandated by the principle that governmental action may not "prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion. . . ." Board of Education v. Bamette, 319 US 624, 642 (1943). The Court also relies upon the decisions...

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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 431

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1976 - 1102 pages

...Street v. New York, 394 US 576, 593, quoting West Virginia Ed. of Ed. v. Barnette, 319 US 624, 641-642 ('"[N]o official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in polities, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion' ") (emphasis supplied); NAACP v. Button,...

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