Establishment Clause | Wikipedia audio article
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Establishment Clause


00:01:36 1 Historical background
00:01:46 1.1 Constitutions of Clarendon
00:02:10 1.2 1689 Bill of Rights
00:02:31 1.3 Colonial New Jersey and Pennsylvania Constitutions
00:03:01 1.4 Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
00:04:00 1.5 United States Bill of Rights
00:05:28 1.6 Concerns of Virginia Baptists
00:07:04 2 Incorporation
00:08:52 3 Financial assistance
00:14:38 4 State-sanctioned prayer in public schools
00:18:31 5 Religious displays
00:21:07 6 Blue laws
00:21:35 7 See also



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SUMMARY
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In United States law, the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution,  together with that Amendment's Free Exercise Clause, form the constitutional right of freedom of religion. The relevant constitutional text is: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...".
The Establishment Clause was based on a number of precedents, including the Constitutions of Clarendon, the Bill of Rights 1689, and the Pennsylvania and New Jersey colonial constitutions.  An initial draft by John Dickinson was prepared in conjunction with his drafting the Articles of Confederation.  In 1789, then-congressman James Madison prepared another draft which, following discussion and debate in the First Congress, would become part of the text of the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights. The second half of the Establishment Clause includes the Free Exercise Clause, which allows individual citizens freedom from governmental interference in both private and public religious affairs.
The Establishment Clause is a limitation placed upon the United States Congress preventing it from passing legislation respecting an establishment of religion. The second half of the Establishment Clause inherently prohibits the government from preferring any one religion over another. While the Establishment Clause does prohibit Congress from preferring or elevating one religion over another, it does not prohibit the government's entry into the religious domain to make accommodations for religious observances and practices in order to achieve the purposes of the Free Exercise Clause.