Further complicating the situation was congressional passage of a joint resolution codifying the rules of flag etiquette. As the violence grew, so did unfavorable reaction to Gobitis. Barnette could not afford private schooling and faced potential fines or imprisonment for failing to adhere to compulsory education laws.
Justice Robert H. Jackson wrote one of the more eloquent opinions in Court history deciding the case on free speech grounds rather than freedom of religion. The Court held that the government could not compel citizens to express beliefs without violating freedom of speech, and regardless of whether the objections to saluting the flag were religiously based or not, this freedom had to be respected.
After September 11, , a surge of patriotism swept the country; several states passed laws requiring the recitation of the pledge with, in some cases, a caveat that students did not have to stand if they did not wish. The only challenge to the pledge that has reached the Supreme Court in the twenty first century is Elk Grove Unified School District v. The Supreme Court, in an opinion authored by Justice John Paul Stevens , found that Newdow did not have standing to bring suit because he did not have sufficient custody over his daughter.
This article was originally published in Mark Alcorn is a high school and college history instructor in Minnesota. Hana M. Ellis, Richard J. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, Manwaring, David R. The decision stunned lawmakers. Within hours, the Senate approved a resolution in support of the Pledge of Allegiance.
Lawmakers also instructed their legal counsel to intervene and defend the constitutionality of the pledge. The Pledge of Allegiance was codified by Congress in as: "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. In , it was changed to read: "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
In its ruling, the court said the U. Supreme Court has said students cannot hold religious invocations at graduations and cannot be compelled to recite the pledge. But being forced to listen to others make the pledge creates an "unacceptable choice between participating and protesting," the appeals court said.
The case was brought by Michael A. Newdow, an atheist whose daughter attends a public school in California. Newdow acknowledged that his daughter was not required to say the pledge in school. But he claimed in court documents her rights were violated when she was compelled to "watch and listen as her state-employed teacher in her state-run school leads her classmates in a ritual proclaiming that there is a God, and that our's [sic] is 'one nation under God.
Acton-Boxborough Regional School District involved a group of parents, teachers and the American Humanist Association in an action against a school district. In February , a judge ruled in favor of the school district. An event in drew attention to the ability of states to require students at public schools to get parental permission before opting out of the pledge, when a sixth-grade student was arrested in a pledge dispute.
That case was dropped in March , but the incident harkened back to Frazier v. Winn , a lower court decision that the U.
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