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...Faxon told the School Committee that he has not belonged to the Communist Party since 1951, when membership became illegal in the Commonwealth. He asserted that he had never violated the Constitutions of the United States or Massachusetts, which he swore to uphold when he took the teachers' oath...
...Faxon declined to answer all other questions posed by the School Committee, on the ground that such interrogation invaded his privacy of political belief...
...Committee could not find any affirmative evidence that Faxon had belonged to the Communist Party since 1951, and it dismissed the second charge against...
...while the School Committee rejected the two principle charges levied against Faxon, it stuck to its assertion that he had somehow violated a "law" by claiming Constitutional privilege under the Fifth Amendment, and voted unanimously to dismiss...
School Board members reasoned that truthful answers to Congressional questions could not possibly incriminate an innocent person and that if Faxon was not abusing the Fifth Amendment, he must be a Communist. Either way, they reasoned, Faxon would be culpable under one of the Board's charges