id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_n35ddkw4fvcr7k6xplmbvz4kny Steven Douglas Smith Taxes, Conscience, and the Constitution 2005.0 16 .pdf application/pdf 6683 471 61 claim a constitutional right to freedom of conscience that is violated when he or she is forced to pay taxes that will be used in say, sincerely, that they are opposed in conscience to any number of things that (with the support of their tax dollars) government doc:s. imagine an argument that might support Betty's claim of conscience but not Al's. Dissenting, Justice Souter argued that the program violated the consciences of taxpayers, and he quoted in support of this claim The historical claim asserts that founding era Americans believed that the use of tax money for religious purposes was a violation of conscience. founding generation believed that the use of tax money for religious purposes violated conscience but that their belief was (and But again, views differed: the argument that compelling a person to pay taxes to support a religion with which he disagreed ./cache/work_n35ddkw4fvcr7k6xplmbvz4kny.pdf ./txt/work_n35ddkw4fvcr7k6xplmbvz4kny.txt