 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations - 1948 - 1364 páginas
...American citizens. As the Supreme Court has ruled in Board of Eilwntinn v. Bnrnrtte (310 US C24) : "If there is any fixed star in our constitutional...religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confer, by word or act their faith therein * • *." LETTER FROM PHILIP MURRAY, PRESIDENT, CIO Senator... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare - 1947 - 828 páginas
...outcome of no elections."" [Emphasis ours.] And again, "If there is any fixed star in our national constellation, It is that no official, high or petty,...force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein."21 The right to choose employees, friends, associates, spouses, falls under the law of natural... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare - 1947 - 844 páginas
...outcome of no elections"11 [Emphasis ours.] And again, "If there is any fixed star in our national constellation, it is that no official, high or petty,...of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or art their faith therein."11 The right to choose employees, friends, associates, spouses, falls under... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities - 1948 - 514 páginas
...said, in West Virginia State Board of Education et al. v. Barnette et al, 319 US 624, 642—1943 : If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation...citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein. • Whether or not a proposal will meet the requirements of due process under the fifth amendment is... | |
 | 1952 - 1054 páginas
...test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order. If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation,...citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein." True, we don't prosecute all our heretics in the courts today. But we can punish the heretic just as... | |
 | United States. Congress. House Un-American Activities Committee - 1948 - 30 páginas
...an American citizen publicly to profess any statement of belief" is to violate the First Amendment. "If there is any fixed star in our constitutional...citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein." That is the rule of the Barnette case,11 which involved pressure on school children to profess approved... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor - 1948 - 376 páginas
...KERSTEN. You can quote it. Go ahead. Mr. ELLIS (reading) : If there is any fixed star in our Constitution constellation, it is that no official, high or petty,...force citizens to confess by word or act their faith. If there are any standards which permit an exception they do not now occur to us. This is by the Supreme... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor - 1948 - 372 páginas
...KERSTEN. You can quote it. Go ahead. Mr. ELLIS (reading) : If there is any fixed star in our Constitution constellation, it is that no official, high or petty,...force citizens to confess by word or act their faith. If there are any standards which permit an exception they do not now occur to us. This is by the Supreme... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1948 - 538 páginas
...the Attorney General is a clear violation of the Federal Constitution. The Supreme Court has held: '•If there is any fixed star in our constitutional...official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall lie orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess... | |
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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... 
