Amendments
First Amendment Clauses
Lemon
Pledge
Church v State
100
A. This prohibits states from either aiding religion or showing preference for one over the other.
Q. What is the First Amendment?
100
This is one of the two clauses the First Amendment contains that prohibit the state from interfering in the establishment of a religion, aiding religion, showing preference to one religion over another, and also keeps the state from interfering with individual religious freedoms.
What are the Establishment Clause or the Free Exercise Clause?
100
A. This test is used to determine the legality of a practice involving religion in public schools.
Q. What is the Lemon test?
100
A. Students are not required to recite the Pledge of Allegiance because it violates this.
Q. What is freedom of expression or the First Amendment?
100
This 1879 landmark Supreme Court case invoked Thomas Jefferson’s view that there should be a wall between church and state.
Q. What is Reynolds v. United States?
200
School-endorsed prayer in public school violates the establishment clause of THIS Amendment.
Q. What is the First Amendment?
200
This is the other of the two clauses the First Amendment contains that prohibit the state from interfering in the establishment of a religion, aiding religion, showing preference to one religion over another, and also keeps the state from interfering with individual religious freedoms. Q: What are the Establishment Clause or the Free Exercise Clause?
Q: What are the Establishment Clause or the Free Exercise Clause?
200
This standard asserts that a law, policy or practice must meet the following criteria to be legally valid regarding religion: It must have a secular purpose, it must neither advance, prohibit, nor inhibit religion, and it must not create excessive entanglement.
Q. What is the Lemon Standard?
200
A. In 1943, this case held that public school officials shall not require students to salute and pledge allegiance to the flag.
Q. What is West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette?
200
Prior to this case, prayer was routinely offered in public schools across the U.S. and generally supported by the courts.
Q. What is Engel v Vitale?
300
A. Setting time aside to pray and meditate in public schools is in violation of this amendment.
Q. What is the First Amendment?
300
A. This clause states that public school personnel are not permitted to distribute religious materials.
Q. What is the Establishment clause?
300
It must have a secular purpose, it must neither advance, prohibit, nor inhibit religion, andit must not create excessive entanglement are all standards created by this 1971 landmark case.
Q. What is Lemon v Kurtzman?
300
A. This case challenged the daily ritual of reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in 2002, questioning the constitutionality of the inclusion of the phrase “under God.”
Q. What is Newdow v. United States?
300
This is the US Supreme Court case in 2000 that invalidated student-led prayer at graduation and other school events.
Q. What is Santa Fe Independent School District vs. Jane Doe?
400
A. This is the amendment that made the First Amendment applicable to state actions (thus providing the same constitutional guarantees to citizens against state infringement on their religious rights by prohibiting the establishment of religious practices in public schools).
Q. What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
400
This clause prohibits the state from interfering with individual religious freedoms and protects rights of citizens to choose any religious belief and engage in religious practices.
Q. What is the Free Exercise Clause?
400
A. This is the test that the U.S. Supreme Court invoked to determine the impact of the statute and practice relating to each case.
Q. What is the primary effect test?
400
During this case in 1985, U.S Supreme Court responded to the matter of silent meditation and prayer by ruling that a period of silence set aside for meditation or voluntary prayer in public school after the Pledge is in violation of the First Amendment.
Q. What is Wallace v. Jeffree?
400
This state passed a law requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in all public school classrooms, which was eventually ruled in violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
Q. What is North Dakota?
500
Which two Amendments were violated by having religious displays?
What are the First and Fourteenth Amendments?
500
In the 1992 decision of Jones v. Clear Creek, it was determined that allowing high school students, when given the opportunity to decide for student led prayers at graduation, did not violate the First Amendment. There were multiple influencing factors in the decision. The decision was made clear by this clause.
Q. What is the Free Exercise Clause?
500
These are the three criteria for a law based on the Lemon Standard:
Q. What are “It must have a secular purpose”, “It must neither advance, prohibit, nor inhibit religion,” and “It must not create excessive entanglement.”
500
A. The Supreme Court overturned Newdow v United States in regards to the constitutionality of the phrase “one nation under God” based on this technicality.
Q. What is a non-custodial parent?
500
The presence of any type of religious symbol or picture violates this principle by creating a devotional atmosphere.
Q. What is the principle of neutrality?
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