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- Title
Justice Jackson and the Second Flag-Salute Case: Reason and Passion in Opinion-Writing.
- Authors
ABRAMS, DOUGLAS E.
- Abstract
In 1943, the Supreme Court handed down West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette. With Justice Robert H. Jackson writing for the six-Justice majority, the Court upheld the First Amendment right of Jehovah's Witnesses schoolchildren to refuse to salute the flag or recite the Pledge of Allegiance, state-imposed obligations that the children and their parents contended were acts of idolatry that violated biblical commands. Judge Richard A. Posner has said that Justice Jackson's effort 'may be the most eloquent majority opinion in the history of the Supreme Court.'
- Subjects
WEST Virginia; UNITED States; WEST Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette; JACKSON, Robert Houghwout, 1892-1954; JUDICIAL opinions; CONCURRING opinions (Law); WORLD War II; PLEDGE of Allegiance to the Flag; PLEDGES of allegiance; FLAGS -- Law &; legislation; LAW
- Publication
Journal of Supreme Court History, 2011, Vol 36, Issue 1, p30
- ISSN
1059-4329
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/sch.2011.0021