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PATY v. McDANIEL

547 S.W.2d 897 (1977)

Selma Cash PATY, Appellant, v. Rev. Paul A. McDANIEL et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

March 7, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Selma Cash Paty, pro se.

Brooks McLemore Jr., Atty. Gen., Kenneth R. Herrell, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, for appellant.

J. Thomas Mann, Thomas, Leitner, Mann, Warner & Owens, Chattanooga, Frederic S. Le Clercq, Knoxville, for appellees.

OPINION

FONES, Justice.

The major issue in this case is whether the Tennessee Constitutional provision declaring ministers of the gospel and priests of any denomination whatever, ineligible to a seat in either house of the Legislature, violates the free exercise clause of the First Amendment to the Federal Constitution.

Public Acts 1976, Chapter 848, the Legislative call for a limited constitutional convention...

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