{"id":1057,"date":"2011-04-21T12:30:35","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T16:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/understandingsecularism.wp.trincoll.edu\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2011-10-12T10:41:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T14:41:53","slug":"conscientious-objection-to-military-service-secularism-evolves-from-religious-freedom-in-the-seeger-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/2011\/04\/21\/conscientious-objection-to-military-service-secularism-evolves-from-religious-freedom-in-the-seeger-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Conscientious Objection to Military Service: Secularism Evolves from Religious Freedom in the Seeger Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Karl Fleischmann,\u00a0Captain (ret.) in U.S. Army, Judge Advocate General Corps.,\u00a0graduate of  Columbia College (A.B.), Phi Beta Kappa and Harvard Law School (J.D.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Congress has long seen fit to recognize a right to exemption from active service for those who hold a conscientious objection. This was recognized by the Supreme Court in\u00a0United States v. Macintosh, 283 U.S. 605, 623 (1931).\u00a0It continues to apply to the occasional situation in which someone develops a conscientious objection during voluntary military service.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION TO MILITARY SERVICE:  SECULARISM EVOLVES FROM RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN THE SEEGER CASE  on Scribd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/52933998\/CONSCIENTIOUS-OBJECTION-TO-MILITARY-SERVICE-SECULARISM-EVOLVES-FROM-RELIGIOUS-FREEDOM-IN-THE-SEEGER-CASE\">CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION TO MILITARY SERVICE:  SECULARISM EVOLVES FROM RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN THE SEEGER CASE <\/a> <object width=\"100%\" height=\"600\"><param name=\"name\" value=\"doc_6972\" \/><param name=\"data\" value=\"http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"document_id=52933998&amp;access_key=key-mng0pw2vo7tj6tw6s9l&amp;page=1&amp;viewMode=list\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf\" flashvars=\"document_id=52933998&amp;access_key=key-mng0pw2vo7tj6tw6s9l&amp;page=1&amp;viewMode=list\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" wmode=\"opaque\" name=\"doc_6972\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Karl Fleischmann,\u00a0Captain (ret.) in U.S. Army, Judge Advocate General Corps.,\u00a0graduate of Columbia College (A.B.), Phi Beta Kappa and Harvard Law School (J.D.) Congress has long seen fit to recognize a right to exemption from active service for those who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/2011\/04\/21\/conscientious-objection-to-military-service-secularism-evolves-from-religious-freedom-in-the-seeger-case\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,33,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1135,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions\/1135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}