01:790:104 Study Guide - Adapt, Rugby League Players Association, Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution
30 Oct 2014
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Barron vs. baltimore - states excluded from bill of rights. Reynolds vs. u. s. - protected religious thought, not action. All levels of government were forbidden to punish citizens for their beliefs but had authority to regulate their actions. Freedom to believe is absolute, freedom to act can be restricted. Sherbert vs. verner - fired because refused to work on saturday because she belonged to the seventh day adventist church which observed saturday as the day of rest. She didn"t receive compensation from unemployment because she refused to work. Supreme court ruled the state didn"t have compelling interest to restrict her religious practices. Yoder - it was against the amish religion to send their children to school beyond eighth grade. The court found that the school attendance law did in fact interfere with the. Amish families freedom to act in accordance with their religious beliefs.
