The Supreme Court of the United States' own 1943 opinion in Murdock v. Pennsylvania is a primary legal document, available in full at the court's own case archive. Its strength is that it is the actual ruling striking down the license tax on door-to-door religious canvassing, in the court's own reasoning. Its limit is that it settles the constitutional question before the court and says nothing about Jehovah's Witness practice or belief beyond what the case required it to address.
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Reliability tier 1: the Supreme Court's own primary legal document, available in full at the court's own case archive. NotesThe Supreme Court of the United States' own opinion in Murdock v. Pennsylvania, 319 U.S. 105 (1943); the court's ruling on the license tax before it, not an independent account of Jehovah's Witness practice.
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AuthorSupreme Court of the United States
Publication Year1943
URLhttps://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/319/105/
Source Typelegal
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- Practices, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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