Online Legal Article - Writing Their Faith into the Law of the Land

by VM44 4 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  VM44

  Writing Their Faith into the Law of the Land: Jehovah's Witnesses, the Supreme Court and the Battle for the Meaning of the Free Exercise Clause, 1939-1945

  Patrick J. Flynn (2004)

  http://law.bepress.com/expresso/eps/248/

  Abstract

  The article traces the development of free exercise jurisprudence through the batles of Jehovah's Witnesses before the Court, and the battles on the Court between Justices Black, Douglas and Frankfurter to establish their constitutional faiths as the law of the land during a brief period in the early 1940's when these issues came before the Court in a flurry of descisions, then disappeared.
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  VM44

  no comments?

  Anyone download the PDF of the article?

  --VM44
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  garybuss

  Interesting! Thanks for the link. Isn't it amazing what ya can do *without participating* in government if ya have a billion bucks:-)
  
  
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  VM44

  Hi gary,

  Yes, it comes in very handy to have your own legal department!

  --VM44
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  garybuss

  The book Thirty Years A Watchtower Slave shows how those cases got to the Supreme Court. It was ALL by set up. The Society WANTED losses at the lower court level. They made sure they had those losses. The Witnesses set up demonstrations in areas hostile to the Witnesses that were guaranteed to be riots. Reporters were called PRIOR to the riots. How do we think the reporters happened to be there with flash bulbs installed in their cameras.
  
  The cops came and hauled off the Witnesses to jail and off we go through the court system. It wasn't by accident the Witnesses hold the record for a religion using the Supreme Court branch of the Federal Government. They did it on purpose.