 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
 | Yoram Dinstein - Political Science - 1989 - 370 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 prevent her carrying her belief into practice? 15 The answer is clear. Moreover, our situation is simpler, since the Knesset, as a legislative body,... | |
 | Kermit L. Hall - Constitutional history - 2000 - 498 pages
...a sacrifice? Or if a wife religiously believed it was her duty to bum herself upon the funeral pyre of her dead husband, would it be beyond the power...government to prevent her carrying her belief into practice?40 The question seemed gratuitous to the Mormons since they never asserted that religion could... | |
 | Jay Newman - Freedom of religion - 1991 - 249 pages
...Mormons at the time regarded polygamous marriage as a religious obligation. "So here," Waite writes, "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 practices... | |
 | Bernard S. Jackson - Law - 1992 - 320 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 prevent her carrying her belief into practice?" 98 US 145, 166 (1879). Whether bigamy, the action involved in Reynolds, would be viewed as so major... | |
 | Marvin E. Frankel - Political Science - 1994 - 146 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... | |
 | Frankie Hutton, Barbara Straus Reed - History - 1995 - 268 pages
...the civil government under which he lived could not interfere to prevent a sacrifice? Or if a wife believed it was her duty to burn herself upon the funeral pile [sic] of her dead husband, would it be beyond the power of the civil government to prevent her carrying... | |
 | Carol J. Greenhouse, Roshanak Kheshti - Social Science - 1998 - 320 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...beyond the power of the civil government to prevent her from carrying that belief into practice?" (98 US 166). Through these questions Waite again frames the... | |
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