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"No Person . . . Shall Ever Be Molested On Account Of His Mode Of Worship Or Religious Sentiments . . . .": The Northwest Ordinance Of 1787 And Strader V. Graham, Allan W. Vestal
Marquette Law Review
The Article looks at the first article of compact of the Northwest Ordinance,
the religious liberty guarantee: “No person . . . shall ever be molested on
account of his mode of worship or religious sentiments . . . .” Congress
provided that the Northwest Ordinance articles of compact would “forever
remain unalterable.” But in a fugitive slave case from 1851, Strader v. Graham,
Chief Justice Roger Taney declared the articles of compact to be no longer in
force.
In evaluating Chief Justice Taney’s reasoning, the question posed at the
dawn of the 20th Century by historian Professor Andrew McLaughlin …
A Masterpiece Of Simplicity: Toward A Yoderian Free Exercise Framework For Wedding-Vendor Cases, Austin Rogers
A Masterpiece Of Simplicity: Toward A Yoderian Free Exercise Framework For Wedding-Vendor Cases, Austin Rogers
Marquette Law Review
The Free Exercise Clause was enacted to protect diverse modes of religious
practice. Yet certain expressions of free exercise have entailed concomitant
harm to those outside the religious community, especially LGBTQ persons.
This trend has been acutely present in the recent onslaught of wedding-vendor
cases: LGBTQ persons seek the enforcement of statutorily protected rights,
while religious objectors seek refuge from state intrusion under constitutional
shelter. Consequently, wedding-vendor cases present an area of law in which
free-exercise jurisprudence and anti-discrimination jurisprudence have been
clashing.
However, despite the primacy of religious freedom and equal protection in
American jurisprudence, courts analyze wedding-vendor cases …