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Freedom of Conscience and Religion

2022
Abstract This chapter studies Article 12 of the American Convention on Human Rights (ACHR), which protects the freedom of conscience and of religion. The freedom of conscience and of religion is considered as one of the foundations of a democratic society and therefore occupies a key position in the international human rights law norms ...
Ludovic Hennebel, Hélène Tigroudja
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RESTORING FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE

Journal of Law and Religion, 2015
AbstractThis paper argues that secular legal systems need a better defined space for freedom of conscience because this important right has been crowded out by both freedom of religion and freedom of thought. Based on the principles of the Protestant Reformation, American constitutionalism expanded the idea of freedom of conscience to the point of ...
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FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE AS RELIGIOUS AND MORAL FREEDOM

Journal of Law and Religion, 2013
AbstractIn another essay being published contemporaneously with this one, I have explained that as the concept “human right” is understood both in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in all the various international human rights treaties that have followed in the Universal Declaration's wake, a right is a human right if the rationale for ...
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Freedom of Conscience

Monthly Review, 1958
On May 19, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in the case of Harry Sacher v. United States reversing Mr. Sacher's conviction by a lower court of contempt of Congress for refusing to answer certain questions put to him by the Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security.
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Conscience and Freedom of Conscience

2013
The word “conscience” derives from the Latin word “conscientia.” In its linguistic origins, the term “conscience” signified shared (con) knowledge (science).1 According to the Longman Contemporary English Dictionary, the conscience is “the part of your mind that tells you whether what you are doing is morally right or wrong.”2 Eide and Mubanya-Chipoya,
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