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The First Amendment protects the freedom of religion and expression from government interference. It prohibits Congress from establishing or prohibiting any religion and from restricting speech, press, assembly, or petition.
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America wasn’t always a stronghold of religious freedom. More than half a century before the Pilgrims set sail in the Mayflower, French Protestants (called Huguenots) established a colony at Fort Caroline near modern-day Jacksonville, Florida. The Spanish, who were largely Catholic and occupied much of Florida at the time, slaughtered the Huguenots...
In 1635 Roger Williams, a Puritan dissident, was banned from Massachusetts. Williams then moved south and founded Rhode Island. Rhode Island became the first colony with no established church and the first to grant religious freedom to everyone, including Quakers and Jews. As Virginia’s governor in 1779, Thomas Jeffersondrafted a bill that would gu...
In 1785, Virginia statesman (and future president) James Madison argued against state support of Christian religious instruction. Madison would go on to draft the First Amendment, a part of the Bill of Rightsthat would provide constitutional protection for certain individual liberties including freedom of religion, freedom of speech and the press, ...
Mormons, led by Joseph Smith, clashed with the Protestant majority in Missouriin 1838. Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs ordered that all Mormons be exterminated or expelled from the state. At Haun’s Mill, Missouri militia members massacred 17 Mormons on October 30, 1838. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the U.S. government subsi...
Reynolds v. United States (1878): This Supreme Courtcase tested the limits of religious liberty by upholding a federal law banning polygamy. The Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment forbids government from regulating belief but not from actions such as marriage. Braunfeld v. Brown (1961): The Supreme Court upheld a Pennsylvanialaw requiring...
In 2017, federal district courts struck down the implementation of a series of travel bans ordered by President Donald J. Trump, citing that the bans—which discriminate against the citizens of several Muslim-majority nations—would violate the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause.
America’s True History of Religious Tolerance; Smithsonian.com. Religious Liberty: Landmark Supreme Court Cases; Bill of Rights Institute. First Amendment; Legal Information Institute.
Freedom of religion or religious liberty is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or community, in public or private, to manifest religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance.
Freedom of religion is linked to the countervailing principle of separation of church and state, a concept advocated by Colonial founders such as Dr. John Clarke, Roger Williams, William Penn, and later Founding Fathers such as James Madison and Thomas Jefferson.
Dec 4, 2017 · The First Amendment, in guaranteeing freedom of religion, prohibits the government from establishing a “state” religion and from favoring one religion over any other.
The First Amendment protects the freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly and petition. Learn about the history, interpretation and application of this amendment from the official website of the U.S. Congress.
First Amendment. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
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