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2015

First Amendment

Donald L. Beschle

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An Absolutism That Works: Reviving The Original “Clear And Present Danger” Test, 8 S. Ill. U. L.J. 127 (1983), Donald L. Beschle Jun 2015

An Absolutism That Works: Reviving The Original “Clear And Present Danger” Test, 8 S. Ill. U. L.J. 127 (1983), Donald L. Beschle

Donald L. Beschle

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Clearly Canadian? Hill V. Colorado And Free Speech Balancing In The United States And Canada, 28 Hastings Const. L.Q. 187 (2001), Donald L. Beschle Jun 2015

Clearly Canadian? Hill V. Colorado And Free Speech Balancing In The United States And Canada, 28 Hastings Const. L.Q. 187 (2001), Donald L. Beschle

Donald L. Beschle

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Conditional Spending And The First Amendment: Maintaining The Commitment To Rational Liberal Dialogue, 57 Mo. L. Rev. 1117 (1992), Donald L. Beschle Jun 2015

Conditional Spending And The First Amendment: Maintaining The Commitment To Rational Liberal Dialogue, 57 Mo. L. Rev. 1117 (1992), Donald L. Beschle

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Does A Broad Free Exercise Right Require A Narrow Definition Of Religion, 39 Hastings Const. L.Q. 357 (2012), Donald L. Beschle Jun 2015

Does A Broad Free Exercise Right Require A Narrow Definition Of Religion, 39 Hastings Const. L.Q. 357 (2012), Donald L. Beschle

Donald L. Beschle

In the 1990 case of Employment Division v. Smith, a sharply divided Supreme Court abandoned the routine application of strict scrutiny when considering Free Exercise Clause claims seeking exemption from generally applicable legal duties or prohibitions. The Court returned to an older view of the Free Exercise Clause as protecting believers only from government acts that were aimed specifically at beliefs, and that grew out of hostility to the religion rather than a desire to further legitimate secular goals. Reaction to Smith was largely negative, and legislative and state court responses followed, seeking to restore strict scrutiny as the appropriate …


The First Amendment In The Seventh Circuit: 2002, 36 J. Marshall L. Rev. 807 (2003), Donald L. Beschle Jun 2015

The First Amendment In The Seventh Circuit: 2002, 36 J. Marshall L. Rev. 807 (2003), Donald L. Beschle

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