- The “Establishment Clause” prohibits the government from creating and/or promoting a state-sponsored religion and stops one religion being favored over other religions/religious beliefs. The “Lemon Test” decides whether a law promotes a religious practice should be allowed to stand. The test is broken into three parts; there must be separation of church and state, the law has to be neutral in it’s effects towards religion, and there has to be a non-religious justification for the law.
- Burning the U.S flag is protected by the First Amendment. A man named Gregory Lee Johnson set a U.S flag on fire in Texas and arrested in 1984. In 1989 during the “Texas v. Johnson” case, the Supreme Court decided that Johnson burning the flag was a “form of symbolic speech” protected by the First Amendment.
- “Taking the Fifth” is a phrase that is derived from the Fifth Amendment. It is the right to remain silent.
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