... human sacrifices were a necessary part of religious worship, would it be seriously contended that the civil government under which he lived could not interfere to prevent a sacrifice? Or if a wife religiously believed it was her duty to burn herself... Albany Law Journal - Página 1661890Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Gordon Morris Bakken - 2000 - 590 páginas
...but not opinion. The court continued by quoting from Reynolds v. US, 98 US 145, 25 L. Ed. 244 (1879): So here, as a law of the organization of society under...excuse his practices to the contrary because of his religious belief? To permit this would make the professed doctrines of religious belief superior to... | |
| Christopher A. Anzalone - 2000 - 422 páginas
...religiously believed it was her duty to burn herself upon the funeral pyre of a dead husband, would it be beyond the power of the civil government to prevent her carrying her belief into practice? Keywords: Civil government, Human sacrifice, Legislative power, Religion, Worship Chief Justice Morrison... | |
| Jerry Menikoff - 2002 - 520 páginas
...religiously believed it was her dut)' to burn herself upon the funeral pile of her dead husband, would it be beyond the power of the civil government to...man excuse his practices to the contrary because of this religious belief? To permit this would be to make the professed doctrines of religious belief... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, Christopher A. Anzalone - 2002 - 736 páginas
...while they cannot interfere with mere religious belief and opinions, they may with practices. . . . So here, as a law of the organization of society under...excuse his practices to the contrary because of his religious belief? To permit this would be to make the professed doctrines of religious belief superior... | |
| Edwin Brown Firmage, Richard Collin Mangrum - 2001 - 480 páginas
...religiously believed it was her duty to burn herself upon the funeral pile of her dead husband, would it be beyond the power of the civil government to prevent her carrying her belief into practice? (US 98:166) Because not all religious conduct could reasonably be exempted from civil control, Waite... | |
| Jeffrey Miller - 2002 - 302 páginas
...bum herself upon the funeral pile of her dead husband [as women sometimes have done in India], would it be beyond the power of the civil government to prevent her carrying her belief into practice? Religious belief was not "superior to the law of the land." Otherwise "every citizen [would] become... | |
| Sanford N. Katz - 2003 - 296 páginas
...from the earliest history of England polygamy has heen treated as an offence against society. . . . So here, as a law of the organization of society under...States, it is provided that plural marriages shall not he allowed. Can a man excuse his practices to the contrary hecause of his religious helief? To permit... | |
| Gary J. Jacobsohn - 2003 - 352 páginas
...religiously believed it was her duty to burn herself upon the funeral pile of her dead husband, would it be beyond the power of the civil government to prevent her carrying her belief into practice?" Reynolds at 166. By maintaining the distinction between belief and practice, the Court never puts itself... | |
| William Arthur Galston - 2005 - 196 páginas
...legislation that pursues generally valid public purposes. As the Court ringingly declared in Reynolds, "as a law of the organization of society under the...excuse his practices to the contrary because of his religious belief? To permit this would be to make the professed doctrines of religious belief superior... | |
| Thomas L. Krannawitter, Daniel C. Palm - 2005 - 270 páginas
...religiously believed it was her duty to burn herself upon the funeral pile of her dead husband, would it be beyond the power of the civil government to prevent her carrying her belief into practice? ... Can a man excuse his practices to the contrary because of his religious belief? To permit this... | |
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