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School Uniforms: Constitutional Infringement of Free Speech?

March 26, 2010 by

Well, are they? A friend (not a lawyer) corrected me when I mentioned that kids don’t have full First Amendment rights of free speech saying that “but their parents do and forcing kids to wear school uniforms without their parents’ consent may be unconstitutional.”

So….now I’ve got to look it up. What do you think?

Filed Under: Constitutional Law, First Amendment
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Daniel Burton lives in Salt Lake County, Utah, where he practices law by day and everything else by night. You can follow him on his blog PubliusOnline.com where he muses on politics, the law, books and ideas. He is active on social media, Republican politics, and has been named to PoliticIt’s list of the “Top-50 Utah Political Opinion Leaders” on Twitter. You can reach him directly at dan.burton@gmail.com