What About the No Test Oath Clause

[Bob Sheridan]

I don't know, perhaps the right against unreasonable search and 
seizure.  Public accommodation in allegedly private workplaces?  Lunch 
counters during the 'Sixties?  Ollie's BBQ and Heart of Atlanta on civil 
rights and the Commerce Clause on which they rely....

I just hadn't thought the private workplace was a Constitution-free zone 
before, that's all, and hesitated to let pass uncritically such a broad 
sounding proposition.  Some folks apparently thought Guantanamo was a 
Constitution-free zone, to their possible surprise.

Perhaps you're making a distinction between statutory doctrine under the 
Constitution, or supported by the Constitution, and a narrower view of 
Constitutional Law than I was thinking.

Bob S.

Steven Jamar wrote:
>
> On Nov 24, 2006, at 7:30 PM, Bob Sheridan wrote:
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>>
>>
>> Steven Jamar wrote:
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>> "...Fourth, to the private workplace the US Constitution does not 
>> reach.  So one would need to look to the duty to accommodate 
>> religious practices and beliefs under state anti-discrimination laws."
>>
>> ***
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>> The Constitution may or may not reach the private workplace per se,
>
> Under what circumstances may the Constitution reach the private 
> workplace per se, other than the 13th Amendment banning slavery?
>
>> but if a large business, such as Macy's, for example, fires a worker 
>> for showing up with a Muslim head-scarf, doesn't she have an issue to 
>> bring to the U.S. EEOC as a matter of religious discrimination in 
>> employment?
>
> Statutory claim.  Not constitutional claim, no?
>
>>
>> Bob S.
>>
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