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compelling state interest

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From 357 U.S. 449 - National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson · 1958Most cited · 5,236 citing opinions

Such a 'subordinating interest of the State must be compelling' to justify governmental action carrying a deterrent effect on the free exercise of the right to associate

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