{"id":7647,"date":"2026-06-21T23:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T23:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-a050-american-government-summer-2026\/?p=7647"},"modified":"2026-06-22T02:47:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T02:47:32","slug":"kaylan-b-db-9-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-a050-american-government-summer-2026\/2026\/06\/21\/kaylan-b-db-9-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaylan B- DB 9.1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Establishment Clause is the part of the First Amendment that stops the government from setting up a national religion or favoring one religion over another. It is basically what keeps the church and state separate. To see if a law breaks this rule, the Supreme Court uses the Lemon Test. To pass, a law has to meet three conditions:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It must have a regular, non-religious purpose.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It cannot help or hurt any religion as its main goal.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It cannot get the government and religion way too mixed up in each other&#8217;s business.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. Yes, burning the American flag is protected by the First Amendment because it counts as symbolic speech, which is a way of expressing an opinion without words. This comes from the Supreme Court case Texas v. Johnson in 1989. A man burned a flag at a protest and was arrested under a Texas law. The Supreme Court ruled that political protest is protected even if it is really offensive to people. They said the government cannot ban an action just because people do not like the message behind it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3. When someone says &#8220;I am taking the Fifth,&#8221; they are using their rights under the Fifth Amendment, which protects people from self-incrimination. This just means you have the right to stay silent. You do not have to answer questions or testify if your words could be used to make you look guilty or get you into trouble. It makes the government prove someone is guilty instead of forcing the person to talk and hurt their own case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2. Yes, burning the American flag is protected by the First Amendment because it counts as symbolic speech, which is a way of expressing an opinion without words. This comes from the Supreme Court case Texas v. Johnson in 1989. A man burned a flag at a protest and was arrested under a Texas law.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11900,"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-7647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion-board-9-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-a050-american-government-summer-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-a050-american-government-summer-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-a050-american-government-summer-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-a050-american-government-summer-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-a050-american-government-summer-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-a050-american-government-summer-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7648,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-a050-american-government-summer-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7647\/revisions\/7648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-a050-american-government-summer-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-a050-american-government-summer-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-a050-american-government-summer-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}