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Understanding The Establishment Clause: A Revisit, Robert A. Sedler
Understanding The Establishment Clause: A Revisit, Robert A. Sedler
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Separation Of Church And State, Neutrality And Religious Freedom In American Constitutional Law, Robert A. Sedler
Separation Of Church And State, Neutrality And Religious Freedom In American Constitutional Law, Robert A. Sedler
Law Faculty Research Publications
Religious freedom is a favored value under the United States Constitution. The Constitution provides two-fold protection to religious freedom by means of the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause. The Establishment Clause protects against the “establishment” of an official church by the government and against governmental action “establishing religion,” while the Free Exercise clause is a textual guarantee of peoples’ right to practice their religion and to hold and act on religious beliefs, free from governmental interference. The Establishment Clause would appear to an outside observer as strongly endorsing the concept of separation of church and state, and the …