Religious Liberty at the Founding
We the People
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Does the First Amendment Provide a Right of Exemptions From Generally Applicable Laws?
The question is whether they're constitutionally required. Does the First Amendment extend a right to religious exemptions from burdens and laws? And here we're not talking about laws that directly target a religious practice, you know, in a prohibit worship on Saturday or mandate worship on Sunday. The long question didn't target the church, it was just a general drug law. It's a very narrow conception. I don't want the Native American church members not to be able to practice their religion.
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