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Gillette Vs. United States

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Mar 08, 1971

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  10. Gillette v. United
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  11. States - 401 U.S. 437 (1971) U.S. Supreme Court Gillette v. United
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  12. States, 401 U.S. 437 (1971) Gillette v. United
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  13. military service must amount to conscientious opposition to participating personally in any war and all war. See Welsh v. United
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  14. id. at 398 U. S. 347 , 398 U. S. 357 (concurring in result). See also United States v. Kauten
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  15. principles of conscience and religious duty may sometimes override the demands of the secular state. See United States v. Seeger
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  16. Sicurella v. United
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  17. in nature. Thus, petitioners' reliance on United States v. Seeger
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  18. U. S. 163 , and Welsh v. United
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  19. has not been regarded as inconsistent with a claim of conscientious objection to war as such. See, e.g., United States v. Haughton
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  20. situations mentioned is quite different from willingness to fight in some wars, but not in others. Cf. Sicurella v. United
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  21. complete certainty that their present convictions and existing state of mind are unalterable. See, e.g., United States v. Owen
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  22. of religion -- overlap and interact in many ways, see Abington School District v. Schempp
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  23. of the Establishment Clause -- the purpose of ensuring governmental neutrality in matters of religion. See Epperson v. Arkansas
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  24. Everson v. Board
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  25. amounts to an overreaching of secular purposes and an undue involvement of government in affairs of religion. Cf. Walz v. Tax
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  26. on one religion, or on religion as such, or to favor the adherents of any sect or religious organization. See Engel v. Vitale
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  27. or impassable barrier between Church and State, taken too literally, may mislead constitutional analysis, see Walz v. Tax
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  28. they must be secular in purpose, evenhanded in operation, and neutral in primary impact. Abington School District v. Schempp
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  29. in war, but the attempt to focus on particular sects apparently broke down in administrative practice, Welsh v. United
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  30. as well as obvious abuses. Walz v. Tax
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  31. Commission, 397 U.S. at 397 U. S. 696 (opinion of HARLAN, J.). See also Braunfeld v. Brown
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  32. McCollum v. Board
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  33. must be able to show the absence of a neutral, secular basis for the lines government has drawn. See Epperson v. Arkansas
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  34. nature, such as the hopelessness of converting a sincere conscientious objector into an effective fighting man, Welsh v. United
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  35. U. S. 605 , 283 U. S. 633 (1931) (Hughes, C.J., dissenting). See United States v. Seeger
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  36. supra, at 283 U. S. 634 (Hughes, C.J., dissenting). See Abington School District v. Schempp
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  37. id. at 374 U. S. 309 (STEWART, J., dissenting). Page 401 U. S. 454 See also Welsh v. United
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  38. by way of exemptions from onerous duties, Walz v. Tax
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  39. opposition to a particular war may more likely be political and nonconscientious than otherwise. See United States v. Kauten
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  40. U.S. at 380 U. S. 185 . See also United States v. Ballard
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  41. or what is or is not conscientious. Walz v. Tax
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  42. U.S. at 397 U. S. 698 -699 (opinion of Page 401 U. S. 458 HARLAN, J.). Cf. Presbyterian Church v. Mary
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  43. Hamilton v. Regents
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  44. clauses of the First Amendment, the Free Exercise Clause no doubt has a reach of its own. Abington School District v. Schempp
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  45. opposition relieves an objector from any colliding duty fixed by a democratic government. See Cantwell v. Connecticut
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  46. Cleveland v. United
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  47. U. S. 398 , 374 U. S. 402 (1963), or interference with the dissemination of religious ideas. See Fowler v. Rhode
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  48. U.S. Supreme Court Gillette v. United
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  49. See Welsh v. United
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  50. United States v. Kauten
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