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Ronny Jackson: If there is any fixed star in our Constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe…

On the recordDecember 12, 2023
If there is any fixed star in our Constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.
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Ronny Jackson
Republican · Texas

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Emphasizing the First Amendment's protection against government-imposed orthodoxy.

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