AP Government
How Does the First Amendment Affect the Establishment & Free Exercise of Religion?
Name: _____________________
1. Define:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion
Congress shall make no law… prohibiting the free exercise thereof
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1st Amendment rulings on the establishment clause & the free exercise clause
- Give brief description of each case, its constitutional issue, & what did each decision do?
1. Abington School District v. Schempp (1963)
2. Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971)
- What is the Lemon Test?
3. Engel v. Vital (1962)
4. Wallace v. Jaffree (1985)
5. Zorach v. Clauson (1952)
6. Reynolds v. United States (1878)
7. West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette (1943)
8. Santa Fe Independence School District v. Doe (2000)
9. Westside Community Board of Education v. Mergens (1990)
10. Smith v. Oregon (1990)
11. Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye Inc. v. City of Hialeah (1993)
12. City of Borne, Texas v. Flores (1997)
13. Hamilton v. Regents of California (1934)
14. Yoder v. Wisconsin (1942)
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15.Agostini v. Felton (1997)
- How did this tweak the Lemon Test?
16. Arver v. US (1918)
17. Bob Jones University v. US (1983)
18. Burwell v. Hobby Lobby (2014)