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AP U.S. Government: Civil Rights and Liberties Drill 1, Problem 4. In which case did the Supreme Court rule that church-sanctioned polygamy was not protected by the First Amendment?

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Thank you We sneak then here's your shmoop du jour

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brought to you by free exercise of religion The constitutional

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protection for spin class in which case to the supreme

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court ruled that church sanctioned polygamy was not protected by

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the first amendment and hear the potential answers are which

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case Case just in case All right When the first

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amendment was first adopted in seventeen ninety one in prohibited

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congress from establishing a national church known as the establishment

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clause as well as passing laws restricting the free exercise

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of religion That's the free exercise clause a super clever

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right Well these two clauses had little immediate impact on

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early america since state governments at the time were not

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restricted by the first amendment and could discriminate as much

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as their little hearts wanted Teo that's How a case

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involving church sanctioned polygamy where a man has more than

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one wife ended up in front of the highest court

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in the land Well did the supreme court deal with

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church sanctioned polygamy in a angle Viva tali Well actually

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angle the vitali was all about the establishment clause not

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free exercise the board of regions for the state of

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new york which oversaw the state's public schools created a

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voluntary prayer for students to recite each day even though

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the prayer was voluntary as well as non denominational The

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supreme court ruled that the mere fact that board provided

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prayer was a tacit approval of religion which violated the

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first amendment prohibition of establishing a national church Like what

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about them atheists right so we can pretty well established

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that it's not a did the supreme court ruled on

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church sanctioned polygamy in seed wisconsin v yoder No but

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this case was in fact dealing with similar types of

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free exercise issues In wisconsin v oder the court decided

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that amish parents could take their kids out of school

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before they turned sixteen even though that broke wisconsin state

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law here's what went down jonas yoda riff fused to

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send his kids to school after the eighth grade since

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he believed high school to be contrary to his religious

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beliefs Well the supreme court backed him up ruling that

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the government couldn't restrict a religious practice without compelling evidence

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of a need to interfere since the additional one or

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two years of high school wouldn't necessarily provide an overwhelming

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benefit that's the court talking not us shmoop loves high

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school really Was the supreme court closing in on church

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sanctioned polygamy Indeed epperson fi arkansas know this case is

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all about the evolution of laws prohibiting the teaching of

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evolution The arkansas state legislature passed a law prohibiting educators

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from teaching human evolution and susan epperson thought her biology

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class deserve the chance to at least hear what darwin

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had to say So mrs epperson toker case all the

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way to washington and the supreme court ruled that the

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law violated the establishment clause since a public institution was

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essentially validating the religious beliefs of fundamental christians by banning

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evolution in the classrooms a no no in the eyes

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of the founding fathers Well what about eve cantwell v

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connecticut Will cantwell is another case that dealt with free

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exercise of religion but this one was all about solicitation

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Jesse cantwell was a jehovah's witness who was arrested for

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handing out religious material in a mostly catholic connecticut neighborhood

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The supreme court ruled that while restrictions on solicitation which

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means asking for donations funds or personal information we're totally

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fine Those restrictions could not be based on religious grounds

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The supreme court ruled that church sanctioned polygamy was not

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protected by the first amendment in b reynolds The us

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reynolds was the first test of the first amendment's free

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exercise of religion clause in eighteen Seventy nine mormons living

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in the utah territory claims that laws prohibiting polygamy violated

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their first amendment right to the free exercise of religion

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The court however held that the mormon practice of polygamy

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was not protected under the constitution Distinguishing between religious belief

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and religious conduct of b is the correct answer In

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one hundred thirty years since sounds ve us The court

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has varied in its interpretation of the free exercise clause

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racking up charges both for and against the freedom to

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believe in what one believes in billings shmoop loves high 00:04:14.962 --> [endTime] school

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