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Murdock Vs. Pennsylvania

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  • US Supreme Court
  • May 03, 1943

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  1. Schneider Vs. State US Supreme Court · Nov 22, 1939
  2. Cantwell Vs. Connecticut US Supreme Court · May 20, 1940
  3. Largent Vs. Texas US Supreme Court · Mar 08, 1943
  4. Jamison Vs. Texas US Supreme Court · Mar 08, 1943
  5. Valentine Vs. Chrestensen US Supreme Court · Apr 13, 1942
  6. Clyde Mallory Lines Vs. Alabama US Supreme Court · Dec 09, 1935
  7. U.S. 105 (1943) U.S. Supreme Court Murdock v. Pennsylvania
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  8. U.S. 105 (1943) Murdock v. Pennsylvania
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  9. cases are here on petitions for writs of certiorari which we granted along with the petitions for rehearing of Jones v. Opelika
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  10. conduct can be made a religious rite and by the zeal of the practitioners swept into the First Amendment. Reynolds v. Page
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  11. U. S. 110 United States, 98 U. S. 145 , 98 U. S. 161 -167, and Davis v. Beason
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  12. gives rise to special problems with which the police power of the states is competent to deal. See, for example, Cox v. New
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  13. Hampshire, 312 U. S. 569 , and Chaplinsky v. New
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  14. U. S. 568 . But that merely illustrates that the rights with which we are dealing are not absolutes. Schneider v. State
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  15. is the fact that the religious literature is distributed with a solicitation of funds. Thus, it was stated in Jones v. Opelika
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  16. is religious or purely commercial. The distinction, at times, is vital. As we stated only the other day, in Jamison v. Texas
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  17. commercial leaflets, even though such leaflets may have 'a civic appeal, or a moral platitude' appended. Valentine v. Chrestensen
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  18. the literature. The Supreme Court of Iowa, in State v. Mead
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  19. State v. Meredith
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  20. People v. Barber
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  21. do not mean to say that religious groups and the press are free from all financial burdens of government. See Grosjean v. American
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  22. The power to tax the exercise of a privilege is the power to control or suppress its enjoyment. Magnano Co. v. Hamilton
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  23. Constitution. Thus, it may not exact a license tax for the privilege of carrying on interstate commerce ( McGoldrick v. Berwind-White
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  24. of these freedoms is indeed as potent as the power of censorship which this Court has repeatedly struck down. Lovell v. Griffin
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  25. supra. It was for that reason that the dissenting opinions in Jones v. Opelika
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  26. Blue Island v. Kozul
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  27. at which the First Amendment was partly aimed. Grosjean v. American
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  28. state has given something for which it can ask a return. That principle has wide applicability. State Tax Commission v. Aldrich
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  29. and the assault which it makes on our established churches and the cherished faiths of many of us. See Douglas v. Jennette
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  30. with or prosecuted for the use of language which is obscene, abusive, or which incites retaliation. Cf. Chaplinsky v. New
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  31. Hampshire, supra. Nor do we have here, as we did in Cox v. New
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  32. Hampshire, supra, and Chaplinsky v. New
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  33. drawn to safeguard the people of the community in their homes against the evils of solicitations. See Cantwell v. Connecticut
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  34. to defray the expense of protecting those on the streets and at home against the abuses of solicitors. See Cox v. New
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  35. of which is denied petitioners unless the tax is paid. That restraint and one which is city-wide in scope ( Jones v. Opelika
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  36. of press and a restraint on the free exercise of religion. They stand or fall together. The judgment in Jones v. Opelika
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  37. Together with No. 481, Perisich v. Pennsylvania
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  38. City of Jeannette), No. 482, Mowder v. Pennsylvania
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  39. City of Jeannette), No. 483, Seders v. Pennsylvania
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  40. City of Jeannette), No. 484, Lamborn v. Pennsylvania
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  41. City of Jeannette), No. 485, Maltezos v. Pennsylvania
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  42. City of Jeannette), No. 486, Anastasia Tzanes v. Pennsylvania
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  43. City of Jeannette), and No. 487, Ellaine Tzanes v. Pennsylvania
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  44. The General Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists, who filed a brief amicus curiae on the reargument of Jones v. Opelika
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  45. While a state may not exact a license tax for the privilege of carrying on interstate commerce ( McGoldrick v. Berwind-White
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  46. flow of commerce, and are not made the subject of regulation by Congress. they are not forbidden. Clyde Mallory Lines v. Alabama
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  47. U. S. 261 , 296 U. S. 267 , and cases cited. And see South Carolina Highway Dept. v. Barnwell
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  48. That is the view of most state courts which have passed on the question. McConkey v. Fredericksburg
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  49. State v. Greaves
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  50. People v. Banks
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