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- Title
Locke in Lakewood: Locating the Proper Meaning of the Free Exercise of Religion in the Time of COVID-19.
- Authors
Upton, Geoffrey C
- Abstract
These actions were justified in different states under different statutory authorities, but in general, starting in the "early weeks of the coronavirus pandemic, state and local officials exercised broad discretion available to them under state statutes and local ordinances to make a multitude of minutely detailed decisions in a situation with many unknowns and no clear precedent."[8] States and localities made exceptions on the basis of judgments as to which services were, in some substantial sense, essential to the minimal continued functioning of life in their jurisdictions. *** The controversial state and local public health measures enacted in response to COVID-19 were passed pursuant to what is known as the "police power", which state and local governments possess under American law, and which encompasses actions deemed necessary to protect the health, safety, and welfare of their citizens. Because of the separation of church and state, judges do not look to established religious authorities to define acceptable religious practice.
- Subjects
LAKEWOOD (Colo.); LOCKE, John, 1632-1704; FREE exercise clause (Constitutional law); ULTRA-Orthodox Jews; RELIGIOUS behaviors; RELIGIOUS tolerance; SELF; RELIGIOUS orthodoxy; PERSUASION (Psychology)
- Publication
Journal of Church & State, 2022, Vol 64, Issue 4, p581
- ISSN
0021-969X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jcs/csac065