 Suppose one believed that 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...  Albany Law Journal - Page 2661890Full view - About this book
 | William Alexander Linn - 1902 - 696 pages
...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 on the funeral pile of her dead husband, would it be beyond the power of the civil government to prevent... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 688 pages
...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...organization of society under the exclusive dominion of the United States, it is provided that plural marriages shall not be allowed. Can a man excuse his practices... | |
 | John Romain Rood - Criminal law - 1906 - 648 pages
...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...organization of society under the exclusive dominion of the United States, it is provided that plural marriages should not be allowed. Can a man excuse his practices... | |
 | Law - 1909 - 452 pages
...and, 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 the exclusive dominion of the United States, it is provided that plural marriages shall not be allowed. Can a man excuse his practice... | |
 | James Parker Hall, James De Witt Andrews - Law - 1910 - 460 pages
...contended that the civil government under which he lived could not interfere to prevent such a sacrifice? Or if a wife religiously believed it was her duty...husband, would it be beyond the power of the civil goveminent to prevent her from carrying her belief into practice! So here, as the law of the organization... | |
 | Law - 1910 - 384 pages
...and, while the}' cannot interfere with mere religious belief and opinions, they may with practices So here, as a law of the organization of society under the exclusive dominion of the United States, it is providedl that plural marriages shall not be allowed. Can a man excuse his practice... | |
 | Criminal law - 1911 - 618 pages
...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...organization of society under the exclusive dominion of the United States, it is provided that plural marriages shall not be allowed. Can a man excuse his practices... | |
 | Moses Perez Jacobson - Church and state - 1913 - 40 pages
...as to its practice of polygamy, Chief Justice Waite, in delivering the opinion of the Court, says: "So here as a law of the organization of society under the exclusive dominion of the United States, it is provided that plural marriages shall not be allowed. Can a man excuse his practice... | |
 | Eugene Wambaugh - Constitutional law - 1915 - 1106 pages
...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...government to prevent her carrying her belief into practice ? law of the land, and in effect to permit every citizen to become a law unto himself. Government could... | |
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