Cantwell v. Connecticut

Cantwell v. Connecticut
Cantwell v. Connecticut
	Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 29, 1940; Decided May 20, 1940
Full case name	Newton Cantwell, et al. v. State of Connecticut
Citations	310 U.S. 296 (more) 60 S. Ct. 900; 84 L. Ed. 1213; 1940 U.S. LEXIS 591; 128 A.L.R. 1352
Case history
Prior	126 Conn. 1, 8 A.2d 533; cert. granted, 309 U.S. 626 (1940).
Subsequent	None
Holding
	The Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment is incorporated against the states by the Fourteenth Amendment.
Court membership
	Chief Justice Charles E. Hughes Associate Justices James C. McReynolds · Harlan F. Stone; Owen Roberts · Hugo Black; Stanley F. Reed · Felix Frankfurter; William O. Douglas · Frank Murphy
Case opinion
Majority	Roberts, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
	U.S. Const. amends. I, XIV

Cantwell v. Connecticut, 310 U.S. 296 (1940), is a landmark court decision by the United States Supreme Court holding that the First Amendment's federal protection of religious free exercise incorporates via the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and so applies to state governments too.

This decision has been described by legal scholars as one of the pivotal religious liberty cases decided between 1938 and 1946 that strengthened the First Amendment protection of religious liberty and "ushered in a new era of personal liberty protections for all Americans."

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