<span>"[The registrar] brought a big old book out there, and he gave me the sixteenth section of the constitution of Mississippi, . . . I could copy it like it was in the book, but after I got through copying it, he told me to give a reasonable interpretation and tell the meaning of the section I had copied. Well, I flunked out." Source: A History of the United States since 1861</span>
The Tinker case is an important First Amendment case because it defines a student's right to free speech in a public school setting. This ruling would have to be taken into account in any later court cases involving the rights of students in a similar situation.
