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Welsh Vs. United States

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 15, 1970

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  10. Welsh v. United
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  11. States - 398 U.S. 333 (1970) U.S. Supreme Court Welsh v. United
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  12. States, 398 U.S. 333 (1970) Welsh v. United
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  13. prohibition of establishment of religion, and that his conviction should be set aside on the basis of United States v. Seeger
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  14. This case is controlled by United States v. Seeger
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  15. j) cannot be construed (as it was in United States v. Seeger
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  16. the contention that Welsh's conviction should be set aside on the basis of this Court's decision in United States v. Seeger
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  17. that have been raised, we vote to reverse this conviction because of its fundamental inconsistency with United States v. Seeger
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  18. See United States v. Seeger
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  19. HARLAN, concurring in the result. Candor requires me to say that I joined the Court's opinion in United States v. Seeger
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  20. capable of bearing a contemporary construction as notions of theology and philosophy evolve. Cf. United States v. Storrs
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  21. which this Court is freer to construe in light of evolving needs and circumstances. Cf. Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson
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  22. U. S. 495 (1952), and my concurring opinion in Estes v. Texas
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  23. U. S. 532 , 381 U. S. 595 -596 (1965), and my opinion concurring in the judgment in Garner v. Louisiana
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  24. free to adopt and shape policies limited only by the most general statement of purpose. Cf., e.g., Standard Oil Co. v. United
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  25. circumstances also uncontemplated by the legislature in order to achieve the legislative policy, Holy Trinity Church v. United
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  26. that are the best guides to congressional purpose and the lengths to which Congress enacted a policy. Rosado v. Wyman
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  27. Stat. 889, without any allusion to a Supreme Being. In United States v. Kauten
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  28. The view was further elaborated in subsequent decisions of the Second Circuit, see United States ex rel. Phillips v. Downer
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  29. Reel v. Badt
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  30. g) was rejected by a divided Ninth Circuit in Berman v. United
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  31. n United States v. Macintosh
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  32. of deity cannot be said to be religion in the sense of that term as it is used in the statute. It is said in State v. Amana
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  33. opposed to combatant military service or to both combatant and noncombatant military service. ( See United States v. Berman
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  34. of avoiding unnecessary resolution of constitutional issues, a principle to which I fully adhere. See Ashwander v. Tennessee
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  35. between its plainly intended purpose and the commands of the Constitution. Page 398 U. S. 355 Cf. Yates v. United
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  36. States, 354 U. S. 298 (1957). As the Court stated in Aptheker v. Secretary
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  37. will not carry this to the point of perverting the purpose of a statute . . .' or judicially rewriting it. Scales v. United
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  38. The issue comes sharply into focus in Mr. Justice Cardozo's statement for the Court in Moore Ice Cream Co. v. Rose
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  39. or extend it in order to render what Congress plainly did intend, constitutional. Compare, e.g., Yu Cong Eng v. Trinidad
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  40. U. S. 214 (1876), with Skinner v. Oklahoma
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  41. Nat. Life Ins. Co. v. United
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  42. and, in my view, would not offend the Free Exercise Clause, for reasons set forth in my dissenting opinion in Sherbert v. Verner
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  43. U. S. 398 , 374 U. S. 418 (1963). See Jacobson v. Massachusetts
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  44. McGowan v. Maryland
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  46. Reynolds v. United
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  47. in my view, compatible with the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. See my separate opinion in Walz v. Tax
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  48. Page 398 U. S. 357 Engel v. Vitale
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  49. Fowler v. Rhode
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