by UUSurprise | September 3, 2020 | From the Minister's Desk | 0 Comments
I have heard many people complain that governmental responses to the COVID-19 pandemic are depriving those in the U.S of the freedoms guaranteed to each of us by our Constitution. I find that most of those complaining seem to believe that free speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, freedom of movement, etc. are absolute licenses for U.S. citizens to do precisely as they wish, without government interference. Those who actually know something about constitutional law, lawyers who study the Constitution in law school, for example, know those freedoms are not, and never have been, absolute. In 1905, the U.S. Supreme Court wrote in Jacobsen v. Commonwealth of...