Title: First Amendment - Rights, U.S. Constitution & Freedoms - HISTORY
Headings: First Amendment
First Amendment
Contents
Bill Of Rights
First Amendment Text
Freedom Of Speech
Freedom Of The Press
Freedom Of Religion
Right To Assemble, Right To Petition
First Amendment Court Cases
SOURCES

Content: When she applied for unemployment compensation, a South Carolina court denied her claim. Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971): This Supreme Court decision struck down a Pennsylvania law allowing the state to reimburse Catholic schools for the salaries of teachers who taught in those schools. This Supreme Court case established the “Lemon Test” for determining when a state or federal law violates the Establishment Clause—that’s the part of the First Amendment that prohibits the government from declaring or financially supporting a state religion. Ten Commandments Cases (2005): In 2005, the Supreme Court came to seemingly contradictory decisions in two cases involving the display of the Ten Commandments on public property. In the first case, Van Orden v. Perry, the Supreme Court ruled that the display of a six-foot Ten Commandments monument at the Texas State Capital was constitutional. In McCreary County v. ACLU, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that two large, framed copies of the Ten Commandments in Kentucky courthouses violated the First Amendment. Right to Assemble & Right to Petition: NAACP v. Alabama (1958):