Abstract
When in 1943 the United States Supreme Court decided that students of the Jehovah's Witness faith could not be required to salute the flag, the Court declared that the ''Fourteenth Amendment, as now applied to the States, protects the citizen against the State itself and all of its creatures-Boards of Education not excepted." [West Virginia Bd. of Ed. v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943)] I would add, "the Iowa High School Speech Association not excepted" since it too is "a creature of the state."
What is especially disturbing is that high school students are being told by the IHSSA that the Bill of Rights does not apply to them. What the Supreme Court said in Barnette needs to be heeded by the IHSSA; Justice Jackson wrote: "That they [school authorities] are educating the young for citizenship is reason for scrupulous protection of Constitutional freedoms of the individual, if we are not to strangle the free mind at its source and teach youth to discount important principles of our government as mere platitudes."
Journal Title
Iowa Journal of Speech Communication
Volume
18
Issue
2
First Page
8
Last Page
11
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Bosmajian, Haig
(1986)
"Comment by Haig Bosmajian,"
Iowa Journal of Communication: Vol. 18:
No.
2, Article 6.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/ijc/vol18/iss2/6
Copyright
©1986 Iowa Communication Association
