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- Title
THE BLUE LAWS DEBATE: A Sacramento Shopkeeper's Story.
- Authors
Marks, Joseph B.; Sanders, Lisa J.
- Abstract
The article analyzes the opinions of the three justices of the California Supreme Court during the conviction of Morris Newman, a Jewish businessman, who was arrested in 1858 for selling clothes during the Christian Sabbath. It illustrates the variations in the principles and judgment of Chief Justice David Terry, Justice E. C. Burnett and Justice Stephen Johnson Field in terms of religious discrimination, religious tolerance and religious liberty, based on the provisions of the California Constitution, particularly, the legislative enactment of the Sundaw law. It also highlights several comments on the interference of the legislature with religious subjects thus violating the fundamental laws which separate the church from the state.
- Subjects
CALIFORNIA; JUDGES; COURT personnel; CALIFORNIA. Supreme Court; CRIMINAL convictions; NEWMAN, Morris; ACTIONS &; defenses (Law)
- Publication
Western States Jewish History, 1993, Vol 25, Issue 3, p211
- ISSN
0043-4221
- Publication type
Article