...but not opinion. The court continued by quoting from Reynolds v. US, 98 US 145, 25 L. Ed. 244 (1879): So here, as a law of the organization of society under...excuse his practices to the contrary because of his religious belief? To permit this would make the professed doctrines of religious belief superior to...

...religiously believed it was her duty to burn herself upon the funeral pyre of a dead husband, would it be beyond the power of the civil government to prevent her carrying her belief into practice? Keywords: Civil government, Human sacrifice, Legislative power, Religion, Worship Chief Justice Morrison...

...religiously believed it was her dut)' to burn herself upon the funeral pile of her dead husband, would it be beyond the power of the civil government to...man excuse his practices to the contrary because of this religious belief? To permit this would be to make the professed doctrines of religious belief...

...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...excuse his practices to the contrary because of his religious belief? To permit this would be to make the professed doctrines of religious belief superior...

...religiously believed it was her duty to burn herself upon the funeral pile of her dead husband, would it be beyond the power of the civil government to prevent her carrying her belief into practice? (US 98:166) Because not all religious conduct could reasonably be exempted from civil control, Waite...

...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...

...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...States, it is provided that plural marriages shall not he allowed. Can a man excuse his practices to the contrary hecause of his religious helief? To permit...

...religiously believed it was her duty to burn herself upon the funeral pile of her dead husband, would it be beyond the power of the civil government to prevent her carrying her belief into practice?" Reynolds at 166. By maintaining the distinction between belief and practice, the Court never puts itself...

...legislation that pursues generally valid public purposes. As the Court ringingly declared in Reynolds, "as a law of the organization of society under the...excuse his practices to the contrary because of his religious belief? To permit this would be to make the professed doctrines of religious belief superior...

...religiously believed it was her duty to burn herself upon the funeral pile of her dead husband, would it be beyond the power of the civil government 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...