Free Exercise Clause

alternative free-exercise clause · alternative free exercise clause

1. USlawA clause in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, stating Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

   The free-exercise clause tells us that that religion is especially favored and the establishment clause tells us that it is especially feared (the state should avoid entanglement with that stuff).

   2011 October 17, Stanley Fish, “Is Religion Above the Law?”, in The New York Times