Jihad and the Constitution: The First Amendment Implications of Combating Religiously Motivated Terrorism

Abstract

I. Jihad in America (WNET television broadcast, Nov. 21, 1994), available in LEXIS, News Library, Cumws File. 2. 322 U.S. 78, 87 (1944). 3. U.S. CONST. amend. I ("Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof .... ). 4. Cantwell v. Connecticut, 310 U.S. 296, 303-04 (1940). 5. See, e.g., United States v. Ballard, 322 U.S. 78 (1944) (prohibiting jury from inquiring into validity of defendants' religious beliefs). 6. See, e.g., Watson v. Jones, 80 U.S. (13 Wall.) 679, 728-29 (1871) (prohibiting courts from participating in internal church debates over dogma).