"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof . . . ."
The Establishment Clause which prohibits the government from establishing or creating a religion in any way—that’s why we don’t have an official religion in the United States.
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First Amendment: Religion |
First Amendment: Religion |
Module 10: The First Amendment
Marci Hamilton and Michael McConnell join National Constitution Center president Jeffrey Rosen to explore the application of the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause during the holiday season.
Understanding the Supreme Court’s opinions in two recent First Amendment cases.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday sent a very strong hint that it is eager, maybe even passionately so, to decide one of history’s most important cases on dealings between religion and government.
After a recent television discussion of the religion decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court in the just-ended term, a viewer wrote in asking why the news media kept referring to decisions by the “conservative majority” when they really were made by the “Catholic majority” on the court. Was the news media afraid to make the connection?
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