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  • We should never accept any religious legal system in this country because that would contradict a bedrock principle of our Constitution -- the First Amendment's separation of religion and state.

    Josh Goodman: What Sharia Law in Democracies Tells Us About Islam Josh Goodman 2010

  • Free speech does not inherently contradict blasphemy laws, which is why they remain on the books in so many US states despite the importance of the First Amendment's freedom of speech provisions.

    Only religious thugs love blasphemy laws | Nick Cohen 2011

  • Mr. Stuntz argues that narrow equal-protection jurisprudence helps to explain why, nearly a century later, Chief Justice Earl Warren began spinning constitutional restrictions from the 14th Amendment's other important provision, the Due Process Clause.

    Crimes, Courts And Cures Paul G. Cassell 2011

  • We should never accept any religious legal system in this country because that would contradict a bedrock principle of our Constitution -- the First Amendment's separation of religion and state.

    Josh Goodman: What Sharia Law in Democracies Tells Us About Islam Josh Goodman 2010

  • He first looks at the 14th Amendment's effort in 1868 to ensure that newly freed slaves received "the equal protection of the laws"—a promise that fell apart a few years later when the Supreme Court eviscerated the equal-protection guarantee and left generations of Southern blacks to be victimized by Klan violence.

    Crimes, Courts And Cures Paul G. Cassell 2011

  • "The third pillar is private ownership of property," he advised, which is in our Fifth Amendment's due-process clause.

    George Allen as Egypt's James Madison? Al Kamen 2011

  • "The third pillar is private ownership of property," he advised, which is in our Fifth Amendment's due-process clause.

    George Allen as Egypt's James Madison? Al Kamen 2011

  • "The third pillar is private ownership of property," he advised, which is in our Fifth Amendment's due-process clause.

    George Allen as Egypt's James Madison? 2011

  • "The third pillar is private ownership of property," he advised, which is in our Fifth Amendment's due-process clause.

    George Allen as Egypt's James Madison? Al Kamen 2011

  • We should never accept any religious legal system in this country because that would contradict a bedrock principle of our Constitution -- the First Amendment's separation of religion and state.

    Josh Goodman: What Sharia Law in Democracies Tells Us About Islam Josh Goodman 2010

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