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Requiem For Roth: Obscenity Doctrine Is Changing, David E. Engdahl
Requiem For Roth: Obscenity Doctrine Is Changing, David E. Engdahl
Michigan Law Review
In 1957, the Supreme Court decided Roth v. United States and Alberts v. California, and thereby commenced what has proved to be one of the most perplexing and politically sensitive tasks the Court has ever undertaken-determining the constitutional limitations on the power of state and federal governments to regulate obscenity. After twelve years of decisions in the obscenity field, the regrettable truth is that "no stable approach to the obscenity problem has yet been devised by [the] Court." The unreconciled conflicts among the several opinions of Supreme Court Justices ·written since 1957, and the new uncertainties created by the …
The Free Exercise Of Religion: A Sociological Approach, Joseph M. Dodge Ii
The Free Exercise Of Religion: A Sociological Approach, Joseph M. Dodge Ii
Michigan Law Review
No overriding theory has heretofore been proposed capable of allocating the various rules of decision in free exercise cases according to an appropriate classification of fact situations. This Article suggests an objective sociological approach to defining and weighing the governmental and religious interests inhering in a given free exercise claim in order to eliminate value preferences from the constitutional weighing process. Religious interests will be ranked according to functional criteria internal to all religious systems and not dependent upon the belief content of any given sect. State interests will be analyzed in terms of formalized modes of governmental action involving …