...of morality and property, and which does not infringe personal rights, is conceded to all. The law knows no heresy, and is committed to the support of no dogma, the establishment of no sect. The right to organize voluntary religious associations to assist in the expression and dissemination...

...quo and majority philosophies. Justice Samuel Miller Watson v. Jones, 80 US 679, 728 (1871) The law knows no heresy, and is committed to the support of no dogma, the establishment of no sect. Keywords: Dogma, Establishment, Heresy, Sect Chief Justice Morrison Waite Reynolds v. United States,...

...freedom issue found its way to the US Supreme Court, which had recently ruled in 1871 that "[t]he law knows no heresy, and is committed to the support of no dogma, the establishment of no sect." However, that case, Watson v. Jones, had concerned a theological squabble within an established denomination,...

...of morality and property, and which does not infringe personal rights, is conceded to all. The law knows no heresy, and is committed to the support of no dogma, the establishment of no sect."80 The justices had no difficulty reading out of this protection the Mormon practice of polygamy,81...

...it enjoys. As the Supreme Court itself averred famously in the 1872 case Watson v. Jones, "The Law knows no heresy and is committed to the support of no dogma, the establishment of no sect." While often falling short of this ideal, the United States Constitution, specifically the First Amendment,...

...is still with much less confidence than in the United States that one can say of the law that "[I]t knows no heresy, and is committed to the support of no dogma." Because the subordination of religion is not a necessary premise of visionary secularism (in the way...

...but the US Supreme Court later reversed the decision. Announcing in fiatson v. Jones that "the law knows no heresy, and is committed to the support of no dogma, the establishment of no sect," the Court held that judges should defer to the decision-making apparatus of the religious body in question,...

...law. In other words, the court agreed with the ruling in Watson v. Jones (13 Wall. 679, 728): "The law knows no heresy, and is committed to the support of no dogma, the establishment of no sect."77 The parent organization, the Saint Germain Foundation, has its world headquarters at Schaumburg,...

...foundation of our political principles." Under the federal constitution in the United States: "The law knows no heresy, and is committed to the support of no dogma, the establishment of no sect. The right to organize voluntary religious associations to assist in the expression and dissemination...

...to suppress heretical blasphemous expression. In 1872, the US Supreme Court asserted that "the law knows no heresy, and is committed to the support of...dogma, the establishment of no sect" (Watson v. Jones 728). This personification of the law "knowing" no heresy subsequently appeared in other court decisions...