[Sherman Logan]

This has a natural split in the difference between individual rights and group or collective rights. An example of the latter being religious rights. A person cannot declare his own religious rights based on his own religion, if it is in contravention of the law. But a group of people can most certainly do so.

Incorrect. The Constitution provides no minimum number of people that must adhere to a religion before it acquires religious rights. It also doesn't give some government agency or the courts the right to decide whether a person's religious beliefs are in compliance with some officially-recognized religion.

And rightly so.

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However, in practice, it does it all the time.