• We are now running on a new, and hopefully much-improved, server. In addition we are also on new forum software. Any move entails a lot of technical details and I suspect we will encounter a few issues as the new server goes live. Please be patient with us. It will be worth it! :) Please help by posting all issues here.
  • The forum will be down for about an hour this weekend for maintenance. I apologize for the inconvenience.
  • If you are having trouble seeing the forum then you may need to clear your browser's DNS cache. Click here for instructions on how to do that
  • Please review the Forum Rules frequently as we are constantly trying to improve the forum for our members and visitors.

Slippery Slope Arguments in History: The Supreme Court in the Flag Salute Case. Eugene Volokh’s Conspiracy

Doug_Nightmare

Active member
Joined
Nov 21, 2018
Messages
717
Location
Washington Island, WISCONSIN. Out in Lake Michigan

EUGENE VOLOKH | 6.10.2022 8:52 AM

From Justice Jackson's majority opinion in W. Va. State Bd. of Educ. v. Barnette (1943):
As first and moderate methods to attain unity have failed, those bent on its accomplishment must resort to an ever-increasing severity…. Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters [DH emphasis]…. [T]he First Amendment to our Constitution was designed to avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings.
 

solus

Regular Member
Joined
Aug 22, 2013
Messages
9,315
Location
here nc
wasn't there a rule you couldn't post duplicate threads on the same topic?
 
Top