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  2. Free Exercise Clause - Wikipedia

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    The Free Exercise Clause [1] accompanies the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. ... One example was Sherbert v.

  3. List of United States Supreme Court cases involving the First ...

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    1.4 Internal religious affairs (also involving the Free Exercise Clause) 1.4.1 Ministerial exception. 1.5 Private religious speech. 1.6 Religion in public schools.

  4. First Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    [15] Free exercise is the liberty of persons to reach, hold, practice and change beliefs freely according to the dictates of conscience. The Free Exercise Clause prohibits governmental interference with religious belief and, within limits, religious practice. [16] "Freedom of religion means freedom to hold an opinion or belief, but not to take ...

  5. List of clauses of the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    The United States Constitution and its amendments comprise hundreds of clauses which outline the functioning of the United States Federal Government, the political relationship between the states and the national government, and affect how the United States federal court system interprets the law.

  6. Sherbert v. Verner - Wikipedia

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    Sherbert v. Verner, 374 U.S. 398 (1963), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment required the government to demonstrate both a compelling interest and that the law in question was narrowly tailored before it denied unemployment compensation to someone who was fired because her job requirements substantially conflicted ...

  7. Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah - Wikipedia

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    The Free Exercise Clause commits government itself to religious tolerance, and upon even slight suspicion that proposals for state intervention stem from animosity to religion or distrust of its practices, all officials must pause to remember their own high duty to the Constitution and to the rights it secures.

  8. Cantwell v. Connecticut - Wikipedia

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    Cantwell v. Connecticut, 310 U.S. 296 (1940), is a landmark court decision [1] [2] by the United States Supreme Court holding that the First Amendment's federal protection of religious free exercise incorporates via the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and so applies to state governments too.

  9. Goldman v. Weinberger - Wikipedia

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    Goldman v. Weinberger, 475 U.S. 503 (1986), was a United States Supreme Court case in which a Jewish Air Force officer was denied the right to wear a yarmulke when in uniform on the grounds that the Free Exercise Clause applies less strictly to the military than to ordinary citizens.