 | Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller, Jeffrey Paul - 2004 - 468 páginas
...obscene actions, prints, and writings." These and similar "offences against religion and morality . . . are punishable because they strike at the root of...obligation, and weaken the security of the social ties."69 One might wonder whether laws against blasphemy are consistent with the founders' principles.... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1893 - 834 páginas
...went on to say, " The Constitution has discarded religious establishments," but what then ? " It does not forbid judicial cognizance of those offences against...root of moral obligation and weaken the security of social ties." He added : "To construe it as breaking down the common-law barriers against licentious,... | |
 | Stephen Colwell - 1854 - 176 páginas
...worship of those impostors." " Though the Constitution has discarded religious establishments, it does not forbid judicial cognizance of those offences against...punishable because they strike at the root of moral obligations, and weaken the security of the social ties. The object of the thirty-eighth article of... | |
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the Constitution has discarded religious establishments. It does not forbid judicial cognizance of those offences against religion and morality which have no reference to any such establishment, or to any particular form of government, but are punishable... 
