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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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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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Rastafarianism and Freedom of Conscience

Journal of African Law, 1995
In the case of In Re: Chikweche (Supreme Court of Zimbabwe, 1995, unreported), the applicant, a devout follower of the Rastafari movement, was refused registration as a legal practitioner by a High Court judge. The precise reasons for the refusal were not clear but seemingly the applicant was not considered a “fit and proper person” as required by ...
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Freedom, Liberty, and Conscience

2023
Abstract This chapter shows how Stair’s conception of liberty and freedom used in the Institutions of the Law of Scotland can be informed by his theological treatise, Divine Perfections. What emerges is that Stair held a theologically rich conception of liberty, which meant that when prescribed obligations of divine law were exhausted ...
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The Right to Freedom of Conscience

2020
Conscience as a legal concept appeared for the first time in the treaties of Westphalia of 1648, thus terminating the 30 Year’s war in central Europe. In order to avoid further religious wars, the contracting parties accepted the freedom of their subjects to exercise their religion according to their own free conscience (“conscientia libera”).
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Freedom of Conscience, Freedom of Confession, and "Land and Freedom" in the 1860s

Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 2012
In On Liberty (1859), John Stuart Mill vigorously promoted freedom of conscience as an "indefeasible right." All citizens should be treated as equal under the law, regardless of their religious affiliation or lack of religious affiliation. Under no circumstance should state and society set about determining what constitutes religious truth, or what ...
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Religious freedom and freedom of conscience

2011
The focus of this intervention about " religious freedom " and " freedom of conscience " is the way followed by the catholic and the sunni traditions to answer to a modern challenge : is individual liberty an upper principle than common truth ? Both included the higher number of believers in one God, and through the public authorities both have in the ...
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