Lafayette In Worcester County – September 3, 1824 – Introduction
When it comes to local history, though Lafayette’s brief stop in 1824 and 1825 may be the most memorable thing that happened in a small town in the 19th Century. A handshake with Lafayette was something worth noting in the obituary of someone who died in the gay nineties some seventy years later.
Family Attorney Fears Tax Decision Smuggles Religion Into Family Law
The Court’s opinion in Grossman, which sets the dangerous precedent stating that a religious divorce can itself civilly dissolve a marriage, misapprehended multiple issues of New York State’s law, and violates the constitutional mandate that there be a separation between church and state. The effects of this decision are monumental.
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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.