RE: Interesting late 1800s Arkansas law related to government and religion

2012-01-25 Thread Finkelman, Paul
Marci: Presumably there is a free exercise right to expel people from your church for having the wrong political ideas. So, I suppose if the church leaders say "you must support candidate x" and a member does not, and openly supports "y" then it is a free exercise right for the Church to expel

Re: Interesting late 1800s Arkansas law related to government and religion

2012-01-25 Thread Marci Hamilton
Ok, I'll bite. Why is an anti-coercion statute obviously unconstitutional? Marci On Jan 24, 2012, at 4:45 PM, "Volokh, Eugene" wrote: > An Arkansas 1891 statute: “No person shall coerce, intimidate or unduly > influence, any elector to vote for or against the nominee of any political > pa