Court Opinion

ID: 9419724
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 22:51:14.96012+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:22:20.199877
License: Public Domain

Mr. Justice Frankfurter,
concurring.
It will be time enough to consider the constitutionality of an Act of Congress that is claimed to be in defiance of the First Amendment when such legislation by Congress confronts us with the problem. The present case does not present such a situation. Subject to this reservation, I *521agree with the opinion of the Court for the reasons briefly-stated in Marsh v. Alabama, ante, p. 510. In the case of communities established under the sponsorship of the United States by virtue of its spending power, it would, I should think, be even less desirable than in the case of company towns to make the constitutional freedoms of religion and speech turn on gossamer distinctions about the extent to which land has been “dedicated” to public uses.