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Establishment Clause en · PROPN

A clause in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, stating Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.
- Ten years ago, Frank Buono, a retired employee of the National Park Service, objected to the cross, saying it violated the establishment clause. 2009 October 7, Adam Liptak, “Religion Largely Absent in Argument About Cross”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- The free-exercise clause tells us that that religion is especially favored and the establishment clause tells us that it is especially feared (the state should avoid entanglement with that stuff). 2011 October 17, Stanley Fish, “Is Religion Above the Law?”, in The New York Times:
- This Article shows, for the first time, how the Supreme Court transformed the Establishment Clause by gradually developing a new justification for the separation of church and state: guaranteeing the political equality of religious minorities. 2002 May, Noah Feldman, “From Liberty to Equality: The Transformation of the Establishment Clause”, in California Law Review, volume 90, number 3, →ISSN, →JSTOR, page 676:
- The Lemon test appears to compartmentalize the factors that are dispositive in establishment clause cases and hints at precision in both analysis and outcome. 1989 May, William B. Petersen, ““A Picture Held Us Captive”: Conceptual Confusion and the Lemon Test”, in University of Pennsylvania Law Review, volume 137, number 5, →ISSN, →JSTOR, page 1829: