Freedom of Religion in the US Supreme Court Jurisprudence 2200-1CV13-ERA
1. The Ten Commandments on state grounds permissible (Van Orden v. Perry, 2005) or not (McCrearyCounty v. ACLU, 2005)?
2. The first questions on the meaning of the First Amendment freedom to believe and to act (Cantwell v. Connecticut, 1940, and Murdock v. Pennsylvania, 1943).
3. Worship of a graven image - to overturn a precedence (Minersville School District v. Gobitis, 1940, and West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 1943).
4. Parochial schools saga begins (Everson v. Board of Education of the Township of Ewing, 1947).
5. To avoid political division along religious lines - the Lemon test (1973).
6. The wall of separation? - the Earl Warren's Court.
7. The line of precedence or the bunch of contradictory decisions? (Aguilar v. Felton, 1985).
8. From permissible accommodation to impermissible establishment (Board of Education of Kiryas Joel School District v. Grumet, 1994).
9. "Aguilar is no longer good law." Remarks on the doctrine of stare decisis (Agostini v. Felton, 1997).
10. The cr?che and the endorsement test of Justice O'Connor (Lynch v. Donnelly, 1984).
11. Christmas tree and menorah. The coercion test of Justice Kennedy (County of Allegheny v. ACLU, 1989).
12. School prayer policy (Lee v. Weisman, 1992).
13. Keeping holy the Sabbath - Sunday closing laws (Sherbert v. Verner, 1963).
14. Freedom to exercise: consuming peyote (People v. Woody, 1964)
15. New perspectives of the Roberts' Court
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