- When I think about The Establishment Clause, I see it as a part of the First Amendment, which states, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” I also get the idea of the related “Lemon Test” from a 1971 case called Lemon v. Kurtzman, where the Supreme Court created the Lemon test to determine if a law or government action that might support a specific religious practice should be allowed.
- Yes, burning the U.S. flag is protected by the First Amendment since it is viewed as a type of symbolic speech. The text mentions that “in 1989, the Supreme Court decided in Texas v. Johnson (a case involving an individual who was arrested for igniting a U.S. flag that another protester had pulled down from a flagpole) that flag burning is a form of symbolic speech protected by the First Amendment, and they deemed the law regarding flag desecration unconstitutional.”
3. When someone says “I’m taking the Fifth,” they mean they’re choosing not to answer a question because it might get them in trouble legally which comes from the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
