1. The “Lemon test” is essentially a smell test for how much something doesn’t smell right with regard to the “Establishment Clause”. There are a few positions and how the “Lemon test” relates to the clause.
    • The first being that all laws “must not lead to excessive entanglement with religion”. Meaning that no laws can so closely follow a religion that it can in anyway be confused for it.
    • The next one supports the previous in that policing “the boundary between government and religion” should be easily understood by the average citizen.
    • Lastly, that no law should
  2. Yes, the burning of the U.S. flag is protected under the First Amendment and seen as a form of symbolic speech, as stated in the text. In 1989, Gregory Lee Johnson was convicted of burning a U.S. flag. Though five years later, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned that conviction and deemed it unconstitutional. They stated that the act of burning the flag was protected under the First Amendment. To this day, Congress will routinely attempt to pass laws regarding the protection of the U.S. flag, and every time the Supreme Court strikes it down.
  3. When someone says “I’m taking the Fifth,” they mean that they will not make themselves available to self-incrimination through their own words. They plan to stay silent and let the burden of proof of guilt fall on the police or the prosecuting attorney.

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