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Welsh v. United States
Welsh v. United States
	Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 20, 1970; Decided June 15, 1970
Full case name	Elliot Ashton Welsh II v. United States
Citations	398 U.S. 333 (more)
Argument	Oral argument
Case history
Prior	Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Holding
	Any person who is opposed to all war on the basis of moral, ethical, or religious beliefs that are held as strongly as traditional theistic beliefs may qualify for conscientious objector status.
Court membership
	Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices Hugo Black · William O. Douglas; John M. Harlan II · William J. Brennan Jr.; Potter Stewart · Byron White; Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun
Case opinions
Majority	Black, joined by Brennan, Douglas, Marshall
Concurrence	Harlan (in result)
Dissent	White, joined by Burger and Stewart
Laws applied
	Universal Military Training and Service Act, U.S. Const. amend. I

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Welsh v. United States, 398 U.S. 333 (1970), is a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States that conscientious objector status is not limited to people with traditional religious beliefs.