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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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