Free Exercise Clause
CLEP American Government, Chapter 19 Free Exercise Clause The Free Exercise Clause protects the choice to hold religious beliefs and to practice a faith without hostile or discriminatory government treatment. Government may not prescribe religious belief, punish a person for belonging to a faith, or target conduct because it is religious. Belief itself receives the […]
Establishment Clause
CLEP American Government, Chapter 19 Establishment Clause The First Amendment begins by forbidding laws "respecting an establishment of religion." At minimum, government may not create an official church, compel religious observance, or favor one faith over another. The clause also reaches less direct forms of government sponsorship, but it does not require public life to […]
