...there are any circumstances which permit an exception, they do not now occur to us. We think the action of the local authorities in compelling the flag salute...Constitution to reserve from all official control. The decision of this Court in Minersville School District v. Gobitis and the holdings of those few...

...be finds unacceptable. ID doing so, the State grades the sphere of intellect and spirit which h it the purpose of the First Amendment to our Constitution to reserve from aD official control.' Id., at 642." Foofcy ». Afaynarrf, 430 U. 6. 705, 714-715 (1977). Just •*...

...conscience. Thus, in Barnette, supra, this Court struck down a compulsory flag salute statute to protect "the sphere of intellect and spirit which it is the...Constitution to reserve from all official control." Id., at 642. Similarly, in Wooley v. Maynard, 430 US 705 (1977), the Court invalidated a statute requiring...

...difference between the two judgments was not in the question but in the answer: "We think the action of the local authorities in compelling the flag salute...Amendment to our Constitution to reserve from all official control."13» The difference between the opinions of the Court in Bametie and Gobitis rested on the...

...a compulsory flag salute and pledge are effective in 36. 310 US 586(1940). 37. "We think the action of the local authorities in compelling the flag salute...limitations on their power and invades the sphere ot intellect and spirit which it is the purpose ot the First Amendment to our Constitution to reserve...

...means are prohibited by the First Amendment if they are motivated as an attempt to do something that invades 'the sphere of intellect and spirit which it is the purpose of the First Amendment ... to reserve from all official control' (Brennan in Pico, quoting Barnette, p. 865), or if the suppression...

...protections for the conscience of free people. As the Court said, its decision was designed to safeguard "the sphere of intellect and spirit which it is the...Constitution to reserve from all official control." As we observed earlier, that flag-salute case overturned a Supreme Court precedent only three years...

...there are any circumstances which permit an exception, they do not now occur to us. We think the action of the local authorities in compelling the flag salute...Constitution to reserve from all official control. Source: West Virginia State Board of Education et al. v. Barnette et al., 319 US 624. SUGGESTIONS FOR...

...requiring a person "to contribute to the support of an ideological cause he may oppose"22 and invade "the sphere of intellect and spirit which it is the...Amendment to our Constitution to reserve from all official control."23 This does not lead inevitably to the conclusion that the Constitution forbids all references...

...citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein."14 For government officials to attempt to do so "transcends constitutional limitations on their power...Amendment to our Constitution to reserve from all official control."15 The fact that children and a public school setting are involved only heightens the need...