When Religious Practices become Legal Obligations: Extending the Foreign Compulsion Defense
Can a man excuse his practices to the contrary [of the law] because of his religious belief? To permit this would be to make the professed doctrines of religious belief superior to the law of the land, and in effect to permit every citizen to become a law unto himself.In 1990, the Supreme Court face...
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2008
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Journal of law and religion
Year: 2008, Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Pages: 535-578 |
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