Legal Opinion
McDaniel v. Paty
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 19, 1978No. 76-1427PublishedCited by 288 opinions
1Judgment of the CourtChief Justice Burger, joined by Justice Powell, Justice Rehnquist, and Justice Stevens
The question presented by this appeal is whether a Tennessee statute barring “Minister[s] of the Gospel, or priest[s] of any denomination whatever” from serving as delegates to- the State's limited’ constitutional convention deprived appellant McDaniel, an ordained minister, of the right to the free exercise of religion guaranteed by the First Amendment and made applicable to the States by the Fourteenth Amendment. The First Amendment forbids all laws “prohibiting the free exercise” of religion. .v
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In its first Constitution, in 1796, Tennessee disqualified ministers from serving as…
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