Religious Liberty Protection Act of 1999: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 1691, May 12, 1999 |
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Page 20 - To uphold the Government's contentions here, we would have to pile inference upon inference in a manner that would bid fair to convert congressional authority under the Commerce Clause to a general police power of the sort retained by the States.
Page 118 - The essence of all that has been said and written on the subject is that only those interests of the highest order and those not otherwise served can overbalance legitimate claims to the free exercise of religion.
Page 154 - Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 US 390 (1923), and Pierce v. Society of Sisters, 268 US 510 (1925)— "to recognize and prepare [their children] for additional obligations" beyond those instilled by the public schools.
Page 85 - Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix.
Page 118 - For even if the possibility of spurious claims did threaten to dilute the fund and disrupt the scheduling of work, it would plainly be incumbent upon the appellees to demonstrate that no alternative forms of regulation would combat such abuses without infringing First Amendment rights.
Page 107 - The possession of a gun in a local school zone is in no sense an economic activity that might, through repetition elsewhere, substantially affect any sort of interstate commerce.
Page 40 - Howell v. Meador, 154 SE 876 (W. Va. 1930) (G) (L) THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints v. Jefferson County, 741 F. Supp 1522 (ND Ala 1990) (G) (L) Corporation of the Presiding Bishop v.
Page 71 - The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.
Page 25 - American) continent; that Christ will reign personally upon the earth; and, that the earth will be renewed and receive its paradisiacal glory.
Page 17 - Congress. And the State itself, rather than challenging the germaneness of the condition to federal purposes, admits that it has never contended that the congressional action was unrelated to a national concern in the absence of the Twenty-first Amendment. Indeed, the condition imposed by Congress is directly related to one of the main purposes for which highway funds are expended — safe interstate travel.