Pledges, parades, and mandatory payments

This Article examines the Supreme Court's treatment of compelled expression cases. It sets forth the speech restraint framework by describing the cruc ial determinations guiding judicial analysis. It then explains the current results, reasoning, and incoherence of the compelled expression cases. This Article isolates and evaluates the variables that the Court claims are sig nificant to compelled expression analysis. It then adjusts the variables ac cording to the free speech clause values evident in speech restraint analys is to create a coherent doctrine of compelled expression. This doctrine bot h places past cases within a consistent framework and provides a structure for evaluating future compelled expression cases.