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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Free Exercise Clause"”.
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Originalism & Judicially-Enacted Religious Exemptions: Revisiting <em>Employment Division of Oregon v. Smith</em>
… , the Supreme Court read the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause to mean that, in certain cases, religious believers should be exempted from otherwise applicable laws. In 1990, the Supreme Court essentially overturned that framework in the case Employment Division of Oregon v. Smith . The …
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Religious exemptions from employment discrimination laws: A moral and theological analysis
… legislative action, and that although the free exercise clause provides some degree of religious autonomy, a sufficiently "compelling" government interest may justify some infringements on religious liberty. The second part of the dissertation (Chapters 4-7) offers a moral analysis of the …