The Supreme Court broadly interpreted the religious exercise clause of the First Amendment and held that the clause was applicable to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment.
Newton Cantwell, an active member of the Jehovah’s Witnesses,
By a 9-0 vote, the Supreme Court reversed the conviction and invalidated the law. Justice Owen J. Roberts’s
Incorporation doctrine
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Religion, freedom of
Time, place, and manner regulations