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Robert H. Jackson
One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.

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Robert H. Jackson (1943). West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette. Supreme Court of the United States, 319 U.S. 624, 638.