The Establishment Clause is part of the First Amendment. It says that the government cannot create an official religion or favor one religion over another. It helps keep a clear separation between church and state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Lemon Test came from the Supreme Court case Lemon v. Kurtzman<\/em> (1971). The Court made this test to decide if a law or government action goes against the Establishment Clause. The test has three parts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n If any of these rules are broken, the law is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Burning the U.S. flag is protected by the First Amendment because it is considered a form of free speech. In the Supreme Court case Texas v. Johnson<\/em> (1989), a man named Gregory Lee Johnson burned a flag during a protest. He was arrested, but the Court ruled that his actions were protected speech. The Court said that people have the right to express their opinions, even if others find those opinions offensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When someone says \u201cI\u2019m taking the Fifth,\u201d they are talking about the Fifth Amendment. This amendment gives people the right to remain silent so they do not say something that could make them look guilty or be used against them in court. It protects people from having to testify against themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Establishment Clause and the Lemon Test The Establishment Clause is part of the First Amendment. It says that the government cannot create an official religion or favor one religion over another. It helps keep a clear separation between church and state. The Lemon Test came from the Supreme Court case Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971).…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10835,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion-board-9-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10835"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11776,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11775\/revisions\/11776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0502-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
2. Burning the U.S. Flag and the First Amendment<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
3. \u201cI\u2019m Taking the Fifth\u201d<\/h3>\n\n\n\n