...Constitution has discarded religious establishments, it does not forbid judicial cognizance of those offenses against religion and morality which have no reference...spiritual oppression and intolerance,' by declaring ' the free exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and worship, without discrimination or preference,...

...constitution has discarded religious establishments, it does not forbid judicial cognizance of those offenses against religion and morality which have no reference...security of the social ties. The object •of the thirty-eighth article of the constitution was to " guard against spiritual oppression and intolerance,"...

...cognizance of those offenses against religion and morality which have no reference to such establishments, or to any particular form of government, but are punishable...obligation, and weaken the security of the social ties. Bell's Case, *tuj>ra. Such article never was meant to break down the common-law barrier against licentious,...

...against religion and morality which have no reference to such establishments, or to any particulnr form of government, but are punishable because they...obligation, and weaken the security of the social ties. Bell's Case, fntpro. Such article never was meant to break down the common-law barrier against licentious,...

...liberty. The Court further held that though the Constitution discarded religious establishments, it did not forbid judicial cognizance of those offences against...root of moral obligation and weaken the security of social ties; that the Constitution never meant to withdraw religion in general, and with it the best...

...practice." Offenses like that charged in this case do not relate to any religious establishment or to any form of government, but are punishable "because they...and weaken the security of the social ties." "The noble and magnanimous" constitutional declaration was not intended to withdraw "religion in general,...

...liberty. The court further held that, though the Constitution discarded religious establishments, it did not forbid judicial cognizance of those offences against...strike at the root of moral obligation and weaken social ties; that the Constitution never meant to withdraw religion in general, and with it the best...

...of the Christian religion. Though the constitution has discarded religious establishments, it does not forbid judicial cognizance of those offences against...the security of the social ties. The object of the thirty-eighth article of the constitution, was, to "guard against spiritual oppression and intolerance,"...

...of these impostors. . . . Though the constitution has disregarded religious establishments, it does not forbid judicial cognizance of those offences against...which have no reference to any such establishment. . . . This constitutional declaration, noble and magnanimous as it is, never meant to withdraw religion...

...the need for virtue, decency, and good order. Kent added that blasphemies against Christianity struck "at the root of moral obligation, and weaken the security of the social ties." He found support for this view in the language of the constitutional guarantee of "free exercise and...