INDIVIDUAL CONSCIENCE AND HOW IT SHOULD BE TREATED
This essay summarizes crucial ways that society-in particular, the United States-has treated claims by individuals to be free of generally required duties because their convictions tell them that performing the duties is deeply wrong. Among the topics I address are how the Supreme Court decisions in...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2016]
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Journal of law and religion
Year: 2016, Volume: 31, Issue: 3, Pages: 306-320 |
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| Summary: | This essay summarizes crucial ways that society-in particular, the United States-has treated claims by individuals to be free of generally required duties because their convictions tell them that performing the duties is deeply wrong. Among the topics I address are how the Supreme Court decisions involving constitutional rights and organizational claims relate to this treatment, but my main focus is on what I see as the critical issues and what I believe to be the wise choices for addressing such claims. Without attempting an extensive account of all that has been written on claims of exemptions, I refer to some relatively recent books that can help one to understand what is at stake and what can be said in favor of competing positions. I also provide references to recent and forthcoming work of my own that explores claims of exemptions in greater depth. |
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| ISSN: | 2163-3088 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of law and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/jlr.2016.40 |