What is the relationship between the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause?
About this video
The video explains that the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause are two sides of the same coin. Free exercise means the government can't stop us practicing our religion according to conscience (absent injury to others or the public peace), and establishment means the government can't impose a favored religion on us.
You'll be able to
- explain what the Free Exercise Clause protects.
- explain what the Establishment Clause protects.
- describe how the two clauses work together.
Key words
- Free Exercise Clause
- The part of the First Amendment that stops government preventing people from practicing their religion.
- Establishment Clause
- The part of the First Amendment that stops government imposing or favoring an official religion.
- conscience
- A person's inner sense of what is right, including religious belief.
Transcript
Video Title: What is the relationship between the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause? Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE1TffPJAnE Transcript generated by YouTube Transcript Generator - Extract transcripts from any YouTube video instantly at https://transcriptgenerator.org ======================================== I think the simplest way to think about this, is that they are two sides of the same coin.
One side, the free exercise side, says that the government can't prevent us from practicing our religion in accordance with conscience. Again, absent injury to others or to the public peace, is going to be a very grave problem. That's one side of it, and the other side of the coin is the government can't require us to practice anything else. That is, the government can't impose upon us any religion that is favored by the state. It's freedom to do what we believe is right and freedom not to do or not to have imposed upon us something that the government thinks is right.
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