Sentences with phrase «free exercise clauses»

They are about the establishment and free exercise clauses — period.

Our first instinct in the legal battles spawned by the progressive excesses of the last few years is to reach for the free exercise clause, which after all exists to protect religious people's ability to live out their faiths in practice.

The «free exercise clause» in the first amendment is only half of what the founding fathers said about religion and government.

Finally, secular individualism can defend legislative, but not judicial, free exercise exemptions only by draining the free exercise clause of substantive content and effect.

Mandatory reporting laws forcing the disclosure of confidential penitential information must be seen as a violation of the free exercise clause of the First Amendment.

The phrase «establishing religious freedom,» which is not constitutional but which explicates the free exercise clause, suggests the positive institutionalization in this area.

If the Church refused to marry them because they did not meet its criteria for a sacramental wedding» if both parties were of the same sex, for example» the state could do nothing about it, since the Church is a voluntary association protected by the free exercise clause of the First Amendment.

«It does not take a clear position on the reach of the free exercise clause.»

Preparations are already underway to make the case before the Supreme Court that state Blaine Amendments violate the equal protection clause and the free exercise clause of the Bill of Rights.

Wednesday's decision reversed a lower court ruling, and revived claims by Texas - based groups and individuals, including the McAllen Grace Brethren Church, that the regulation violated their rights under the First Amendment's free exercise clause and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

Regarding religious issues, Gorsuch tends to view the scope of the establishment clause narrowly and the free exercise clause broadly.

Choice supporters claim that such discriminatory exclusion violates the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause and the First Amendment's free exercise clause.

Gorsuch tends to view the scope of the establishment clause narrowly and the free exercise clause broadly when it comes to religious issues.

This means that excluding religious schools may violate not one but three separate constitutional provisions: the equal protection clause, the free exercise clause (which protects the free exercise of religion), and the free speech clause.

The equal protection clause and the free exercise clause both prohibit discrimination on the basis of religion unless there is some compelling reason for the discrimination.

According to a fairly controversial Supreme Court decision about a decade ago, the free exercise clause does not prohibit a state from applying religiously neutral and generally applicable laws to religious institutions or individuals.

Although some strange quirks exist within this rule, it seems safe to conclude that the free exercise clause would not entitle private religious schools to an exemption from generally applicable antidiscrimination or academic regulations.

In an article in the new issue of Education Next, Joshua Dunn examines the Colorado ruling and explains that because the Blaine Amendment comes from a time of widespread anti-Catholic prejudice, the U.S. Supreme Court could very well strike down the ruling on the grounds that the Blaine Amendment violates the free exercise clause.

Many conservatives in the United States are strong supporters of the free exercise clause, but think that the establishment clause should only apply to the federal government (so the state and local governments can establish a religion).

The «free exercise clause» is similar to the stance that the Koran takes towards «People of the Book» but applied to any kind of religious belief not just Jews and Christians.

One part is the «free exercise clause» which allows people to practice the religion of their choice.

Not exact matches

I'm reading NFIB v. Sebelius (the Obamacare decision) in preparation for teaching the case to my constitutional law students and came across the following most interesting passage in in Justice Ginsburg's opinion: «A mandate to purchase a particular product would be unconstitutional if, for example, the edict impermissibly abridged the freedom of speech, interfered with the free exercise of religion, or infringed on a liberty interest protected by the Due Process Clause.»

The seriousness of the problem is revealed by the fact that, although Trinity Lutheran has come before the Supreme Court as a free exercise and equal protection case, the Blaine Amendments most centrally collide with the Establishment Clause.

Note the way in which the ideal of separation («keeping the government out of the business») has come to overshadow even the free - exercise clause itself.

Regular First Things readers know that the late Father Richard John Neuhaus never tired of arguing that the First Amendment contains not two religion clauses but one: «no establishment» and «free exercise» are not two free - floating provisions at occasional loggerheads with each other but....

The court reasoned that property tax exemption differed from a tax subsidy — which would be impermissible under the entanglement principle of the free - exercise clause — because:

Under the free - exercise clause every person is entitled to respect for her or his religious commitments, and their free exercise should not be burdened by governmental interference except to secure «compelling state interests» (such as protection of public health and safety, not just public welfare or order) that can be served in no less burdensome way.

But... it [has taken] an equally minimalist view of the free - exercise clause.

But in many recent cases they have tended to agree more readily on another thesis: that the free - exercise clause does not interpose protections of religious obligations and practices that it once did (from 1940 to 1981), and that the establishment clause does not have the, force against government action that it once did (from 1948 to 1985)

The court has been whittling back on both free - exercise and establishment - clause claims in favor of wider amplitude for the exercise of the powers of government.

Passage of the Religion Clauses of the First Amendment («Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...») was one of the first effective exertions of political muscle by minority groups in the United States.

The «free exercise» clause applies to all faith groups equally and should not be seen as a threat to those that are in the minority — precisely the groups that the «no establishment» clause was designed to protect.

By assuming that the «free exercise» clause refers to the right to worship, Johnson, perhaps unconsciously, regards «religion» as something people do either in private or in a sanctuary, mosque or temple.

But we must also be careful not to read the «no establishment» clause so as to restrict all public expressions of faith and hence dilute the meaning of «free exercise.»

What, do you suppose, was the evil that the Founders had in mind when they adopted the First Amendment's Religion Clause with its «free exercise» and «no establishment» provisions?

It's the idea at the heart of the Establishment Clause in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution: «Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.»

There is very little about the free - exercise clause in Hamburger's book, and the seeming equation of the disestablishment / separation issue with «American religious freedom» more generally seems to leave out one half of a complex and at - least - two - sided constitutional reality.

Indeed, the First Amendment's «free exercise» clause assures that each individual is free to exercise and express his or her religious views — publicly as well as privately.

The religion clauses of the First Amendment, coupled with the 14th Amendment's guaranty of ordered liberty, preclude both the nation and the states from making any law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

They contend that the kirpans are religious symbols protected by the First Amendment's clause on free exercise of religion.

Admittedly, there are plenty of ambiguities in how the Court has interpreted and applied the equal protection, free exercise, and free speech clauses.

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Mr. Enrich: In a footnote in Flast, the court specifically says, «Having now decided that there's Establishment Clause standing, we can also reach the free - exercise question without discussing whether there would be independent standing.»

The blog includes links to resources, academic centers, advocacy organizations, journals and listservs that deal with free exercise and establishment clause issues.

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Many countries have a freedom of religion that protects free exercise but does not have an establishment clause.

Mr. Enrich: In a footnote in Flast [v. Cohen], the Court specifically says, «Having now decided that there's Establishment Clause standing, we can also reach the free - exercise question without discussing whether there would be independent standing.»

Understanding how to balance the constitutional clauses regarding religious separation and free exercise in classrooms and schools within a religiously pluralistic society is an educational, civic, and legal challenge.