4/14/2021
E-Library - Information At Your Fingertips: Printer Friendly
freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble,
and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
[7] The First Clause of the Magna Carta reads: "First, that we have granted to God, and
by this present charter have confirmed for us and our heirs in perpetuity, that the
English Church shall be free, and shall have its rights undiminished, and its liberties
unimpaired. That we wish this so to be observed, appears from the fact that of our own
free will, before the outbreak of the present dispute between us and our barons, we
granted and confirmed by charter the freedom of the Church's elections - a right
reckoned to be of the greatest necessity and importance to it - and caused this to be
confirmed by Pope Innocent III. This freedom we shall observe ourselves, and desire to
be observed in good faith by our heirs in perpetuity."
[8] The First Act of Supremacy reads: "Albeit the king's Majesty justly and rightfully is
and ought to be the supreme head of the Church of England, and so is recognized by
the clergy of this realm in their convocations, yet nevertheless, for corroboration and
confirmation thereof, and for increase of virtue in Christ's religion within this realm of
England, and to repress and extirpate all errors, heresies, and other enormities and
abuses heretofore used in the same, be it enacted, by authority of this present
Parliament, that the king, our sovereign lord, his heirs and successors, kings of this
realm, shall be taken, accepted, and reputed the only supreme head in earth of the
Church of England, called Anglicana Ecclesia; and shall have and enjoy, annexed and
united to the imperial crown of this realm, as well the title and style thereof, as all
honors, dignities, preeminences, jurisdictions, privileges, authorities, immunities,
profits, and commodities to the said dignity of the supreme head of the same Church
belonging and appertaining; and that our said sovereign lord, his heirs and successors,
kings of this realm, shall have full power and authority from time to time to visit,
repress, redress, record, order, correct, restrain, and amend all such errors, heresies,
abuses, offenses, contempts and enormities, whatsoever they be, which by any manner
of spiritual authority or jurisdiction ought or may lawfully be reformed, repressed,
ordered; redressed, corrected, restrained, or amended, most to the pleasure of
Almighty God, the increase of virtue in Christ's religion, and for the conservation of the
peace, unity, and tranquility of this realm; any usage, foreign land, foreign authority,
prescription, or any other thing or things to the contrary hereof notwithstanding."
[9] Hossana-Tabor collectively refers to the Non-Establishment and Free Exercise
clauses as the Religion Clauses.
[10] Supra at note 1.
[11] Id.
[12] 426 U.S. 696 (1976).
[13] Supra at note 1.
[14] The Fourteenth Amendment is composed of five sections, which read as follows:
https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocsfriendly/1/66079
22/24
Select target paragraph3
Connect to a paragraph
Connect to an entity
Disable highlights
Add to table of contents