| Native American petitioners had argued that the project would seriously damage what they held sacred and therefore violate the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment. |
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| The Free Exercise Clause also has been the subject of much debate and disagreement. |
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| Ruled that the Free Exercise Clause exempted the adolescent children of the Old Order Amish from compulsory school attendance laws. |
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| At the same time, it expanded the Free Exercise Clause to guard religious practices of fringe religious groups. |
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| This exclusion hollows out the religious equality guaranteed by the Free Exercise Clause. |
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| Ruled that the Free Exercise Clause did not give religiously motivated public school children the right to opt out of a compulsory flag-salute ceremony. |
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| Ruled that a South Carolina unemployment policy forcing an employee to choose between her faith's Saturday Sabbath and eligibility for unemployment benefits violated the Free Exercise Clause. |
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| The introduction largely concerns the two parts of the First Amendment, the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause. |
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| On the other hand, we must not violate the Free Exercise Clause by demonstrating hostility to religion through the systematic purging of everything with a religious overtone. |
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| A favourable ruling could find that the free exercise clause of the First Amendment trumps any state's law that discriminates against non-public schools. |
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