CSPAN2 Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest June 12, 2016
So, just like the jehovahs witnesses in 1943, the consequences are stark. Barnett held that people, including young students, could not be forced to say what was not in their minds. A concept we today called the rule against compelled speech. The court emphasized the constitutional limits on the states coercive power, which exercised by, quote, village tyrants or by the federal government. And it underscored that the First Amendment was designed to protect noncon officialists of all stripes them court particularly focused on schools because the case involved two Elementary School girls. It sai...