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"Writing Their Faith into the Laws of the Land:"1 Jehovah's Witnesses and the Supreme Court's Battle for the Meaning of the Free Exercise Clause, 1939-1945
Academic journal article from Texas Journal on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights, Vol. 10, No. 1
Beginning of article
The Supreme Court recently upheld the free exercise rights of a religious group to canvas door-to-door without first obtaining a permit.2 The Jehovah's Witnesses asserted that their right to practice their faith through door-to-door contacts overrode the government's interest in restricting such activities, even through the government's use of neutral laws.3 It was fitting that the Court, in finding the Witnesses' activities were the exercise of their religion, cited the free exercise decisions from the late 1930s and early 1940s.4 The Jehovah's Witnesses brought most of those original cases before the Supreme Court,5 and in doing so, used their beliefs to establish much of the First …
