Free Exercise Clause
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See also: free-exercise clause
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[edit]- (US, law) A clause in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, stating Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
- 2011 October 17, Stanley Fish, “Is Religion Above the Law?”, in The New York Times:
- 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).
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Free Exercise Clause on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
