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AP U.S. Government 1.5 Civil Rights and Liberties. In which case did the Supreme Court rule that states must reflect the religious guarantees of the First Amendment?
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Brought to you by the supreme court The largest food
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court of them all Yeah Everyone's great In which case
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to the supreme court ruled that the states must respect
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the religious guarantees of the first amendment and hear the
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pencil answers aren't was angled Ellie run on Okay remember
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incorporation Of course we do But a quick refresher never
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hurts Right Right When the framers passed the bill of
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rights they intended for that list of freedoms and guarantees
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to apply only to the federal government States on the
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other hand could trample all over our precious rights and
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liberties as much as they wanted for as long as
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they wanted Understandably people started to complain after a while
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which is how the supreme court got involved All right
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justices state your case Did the supreme court rule that
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states must respect the religious guarantees of the first amendment
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in a angle Viva tali Well actually the court came
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down in favor of the not so religiously free in
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angle vs vitali In the case the board of regions
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for the state of new york distributed a voluntary prayer
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for public school students To say every day while the
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prayer might have been voluntary as well as non denominational
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a public institution distributing a prayer violated the establishment clause
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of the first amendment meaning the national government or by
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extension the state government could not approve or establish any
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kind of national religion So is out Could the supreme
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court have four states to respect freedom of religion in
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b reynolds be us well again kind of the opposite
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When mormons arrived in the utah territory in eighteen seventy
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nine they claimed that local laws prevented them from practicing
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polygamy which was part of their religious belief systems The
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supreme court said the ban on having more than one
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wife was just fine and that there was an important
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distinction between the freedom of religious beliefs and the un
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freedom of religious conduct that could impact the community So
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beacon go too did the supreme court ruled that states
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most respect religious guarantees in c wisconsin v odor Well
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they sure did In wisconsin v oder the supreme court
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ruled that amish parents who wanted to take their kids
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out of school before they turned sixteen could not be
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punished for breaking wisconsin State law But this case was
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all the way back in nineteen seventy two there's a
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good chance that another one on the list at the
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precedent for these home schooled home boys and girls And
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if you haven't seen it lately check out amish mafia
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revenge kinds of good stuff going on there Fine actor
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All right what about d epperson v arkansas While in
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epperson v arkansas the supreme court ruled that arkansas couldn't
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ban the teaching of evolution in public schools since that
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amounted to the state's establishment There is that tricky claws
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again of fundamental christianity as the state religion I'm not
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teaching evolution and it's dead teaching creationism right So diaz
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out Well that means the supreme court ruled that the
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states must respect the religious guarantees of the first amendment
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in cantwell v connecticut The first amendment's freedom of religion
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was first incorporated meaning the bill of rights was applied
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to the state in nineteen forties Cantwell v connecticut The
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court ruled that a state law prohibiting door to door
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proselytizing it's marketing of religion violated the free exercise clause
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because cantwell a jehovah's witness had been arrested for sharing
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his beliefs in a predominantly catholic neighborhood So is the
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right answer Back to the supreme court Look at all 00:03:25.38 --> [endTime] the options for lunch State your case
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