ABSTRACT
Felix Frankfurter came to America as an immigrant at the age of twelve, when he spoke no English but spoke Yiddish and knew Hebrew. He came from an Orthodox Jewish family in Vienna. When Felix Frankfurter was appointed associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939, it was generally assumed that he would become one of America's greatest jurists. Justice Frankfurter's philosophy of obligation, though never explicitly formulated by him, was perhaps rooted in classical Jewish thought. Justice Frankfurter, in his opinion, said that the school board had not adopted the requirement as one aimed to deny any religious liberty to any children; it was intended to be a general regulation aimed to strengthen national unity; for the flag is a symbol of national strength, national unity. Religious, conscientious scruples do not relieve a person from obedience to a general law.
