...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? (US 98:166) Because not all religious conduct could reasonably be exempted from civil control, Waite...

...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 practices...

...duty to 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...

...Reynolds, it is interesting to note, the Court alludes to India in raising a rhetorical question: "[I[fa wife religiously believed it was her duty to burn...to prevent her carrying her belief into practice?" Reynolds at 166. By maintaining the distinction between belief and practice, the Court never puts itself...

...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 the exclusive dominion of the United States, it is provided that plural marriages shall not he allowed. Can a man excuse his practices...

...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? ... Can a man excuse his practices to the contrary because of his religious belief? To permit this...

...legislation that pursues generally valid public purposes. As the Court ringingly declared in Reynolds, "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...

...contented 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...

...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...

...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?145 Notice how the Reynolds Court's hypothetical assume the existence of some sort of harm....