• law, the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, together with that Amendment's Free Exercise Clause, form the...
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    through its Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause, which together form the religious liberty clauses of the First Amendment. The first clause prohibits...
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  • Islands Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, forming the right of freedom of religion Establishment Division...
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  • Free Exercise Clause accompanies the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Establishment Clause and the Free...
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  • to succeed in their argument that the proclamation violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and exceeded...
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  • Jefferson and used by others in discussions of the Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution...
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  • Engel v. Vitale (category Establishment Clause case law)
    argued that opening the school day with such a prayer violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution as applied...
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  • The No Religious Test Clause of the United States Constitution is a clause within Article VI, Clause 3: "Senators and Representatives before mentioned...
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  • particular clause becomes an important or contentious issue of law, it is given a name for ease of reference. Establishment Clause Free Exercise Clause Free...
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    White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships (category 2001 establishments in the United States)
    the American Civil Liberties Union, assert that it violated the Establishment Clause by using tax money to fund religion. They also argued that faith-based...
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  • Everson v. Board of Education (category Establishment Clause case law)
    Supreme Court that applied the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to state law. Before this decision, the clause, which states, "Congress shall...
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  • parochial schools does not violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. The Establishment Clause is incorporated against the states, and...
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  • Kennedy v. Bremerton School District (category Establishment Clause case law)
    which the Court held, 6–3, that the government, while following the Establishment Clause, may not suppress an individual from engaging in personal religious...
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    Marshall, Harry Blackmun, and Lewis Powell. He affirmed that the Establishment Clause is binding on the States via the Fourteenth Amendment, and that:...
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  • Lemon v. Kurtzman (category Establishment Clause case law)
    statutes violated the Establishment Clause. Relying on its analysis of precedent, the majority decided that the Establishment Clause required that a statute...
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  • action amounts to an endorsement of religion, thus violating the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. According to the test, a government action...
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    ("Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion") is known as the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, while the second part...
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    the Ten Commandments on the grounds of the Texas Capitol under the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution. Van Orden v. Perry, 125 S. Ct. 2854 (2005)...
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  • view that Everson was wrongly decided and that incorporation of the Establishment Clause is not justified under the Constitution. See Nussbaum, Martha Craven...
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    defense on establishment of religion grounds rested—and had to rest—solely on the state constitution, as there was no federal Establishment Clause protection...
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    order]" in her ruling finding the executive order likely violates the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution. In a speech on August 4 to a Maine audience...
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  • Abington School District v. Schempp (category Establishment Clause case law)
    state courts had declared the laws to be unconstitutional. The Establishment Clause had already been applied to the states in Everson v. Board of Education...
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    violates the Establishment Clause. O'Connor was the first justice to articulate the "no endorsement" standard for the Establishment Clause. In Lynch v...
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  • religion by the government is broken into two clauses: the establishment clause and the free exercise clause. Both are discussed in regard to whether certain...
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  • Supreme Court of the United States to assess exemptions from the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The first use of...
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    department's establishment. There are concerns regarding the constitutionality of having members of Congress in the line of succession, however, as this clause specifies...
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  • The Necessary and Proper Clause, also known as the Elastic Clause, is a clause in Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution: The Congress...
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    ever held that evolutionism or Secular Humanism are 'religions' for Establishment Clause purposes." The Supreme Court refused to review the case. The decision...
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  • teaching of evolution, advanced a religion, and therefore violated the Establishment Clause of the US Constitution. Creationists then starting lobbying to have...
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    and state" to describe the combined effect of the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment. Though "separation of church...
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