McGowan v. Maryland

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McGowan v. Maryland
the Supreme Court of the United States
Syllabus

McGowan v. Maryland, 366 U.S. 420 (1961), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that laws with religious origins are not unconstitutional if they have secular purpose.

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Dissenting Opinion
Douglas
Separate Opinion
Frankfurter

United States Supreme Court

366 U.S. 420

McGowan  v.  Maryland

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Mr. Harry Silbert, Baltimore, Md., for appellants.

Mr. John Martin Jones, Jr., Baltimore Md., for appellee.

Mr. Chief Justice WARREN delivered the opinion of the Court.

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).

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