With Liberty for All by Phillip E. Hammond
By Phillip E. Hammond
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Even if society can muddle through establishment cases, however, pressures exist to seek and declare the principles by which people in general, and jurists in particular, can know what is and is not permissible. And, of course, since separationists and accommodationists respond differently to these pressures, legal clarity in establishment cases may be a long time coming. On the other hand, a kind of sociological clarity regarding "establishment" may be closer at hand, and that will be the focus of chapter 4.
We would then be in a position to review RFRA in light of a proper interpretation of the Free Exercise Clause. As for now, the "proper" interpretation of the Free Exercise Clause is not at all clear. We shall return to the Smith case and Boerne v. Flores in chapter 3. With regard to the No Establishment Clause, it is more accurate to say that a doctrine was well settled but confusion now surrounds it. This doctrine was called the "Lemon Test" because it was formalized in a 1971 Supreme Court case, Lemon v.
On the other hand, a kind of sociological clarity regarding "establishment" may be closer at hand, and that will be the focus of chapter 4. The Rise of Church-State Issues There remains now the task of asking why church-state issues have become so vexatious in recent decades. Several answers can be suggested, but first the question must be sharpened. S. citizens and thus "incorporated" the federal constitutional rights into the various state constitutions, First Amendment issues arose only in the territories, not states, of the Union.