Cases by Subject Matter
Notes on the Text
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. CASES
Chapter 1 Reynolds v. United States (1879)
Chapter 2 Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States (1892)
Chapter 3 Bradfield v. Roberts(1899)
Chapter 4 Cantwell v. State of Connecticut (1940)
Chapter 5 Minersville School District v. Gobitis (1940)
Chapter 6 Jones v. Opelika; Bowden v. FortSmith; Jobin v. Arizona (1942)
Chapter 7 Murdock v. Pennsylvania (City of Jeannette) (1943)
Chapter 8 West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943)
Chapter 9 Follett v. Town of McCormick (1944)
Chapter 10 Everson v. Board of Education of Ewing Township (1947)
Chapter 11 Illinois ex rel. McCollum v. Board of Education (1948)
Chapter 12 Zorach v. Clauson (1952)
Chapter 13 Torcaso v. Watkins (1961)
Chapter 14 Braunfeld v. Brown (1961)
Chapter 15 Engel v. Vitale (1962)
Chapter 16 Abington School District v. Schempp (1963)
Chapter 17 Sherbert v. Verner (1963)
Chapter 18 United States v. Seeger (1965)
Chapter 19 Board of Education v. Allen (1968)
Chapter 20 Epperson v. Arkansas (1968)
Chapter 21 Walz v. Tax Commission of the City of New York (1970)
Chapter 22 Welsh v. United States (1970)
Chapter 23 Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971)
Chapter 24 Tilton v. Richardson (1971)
Chapter 25 Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972)
Chapter 26 Committee for Public Education and Religious Liberty v. Nyquist (1973)
Chapter 27 McDaniel v. Paty (1978)
Chapter 28 Stone v. Graham (1980)
Chapter 29 Thomas v. Review Board of the Indiana Employment Security Division (1981)
Chapter 30 Widmar v. Vincent (1981)
Chapter 31 United States v. Lee (1982)
Chapter 32 Bob Jones University v. United States (1983)
Chapter 33 Mueller v. Allen (1983)
Chapter 34 Marsh v. Chambers (1983)
Chapter 35 Lynch v. Donnelly (1984)
Chapter 36 Wallace v. Jaffree (1985)
Chapter 37 Witters v. Washington Department of Services for the Blind (1986)
Chapter 38 Goldman v. Weinberger (1986)
Chapter 39 Edwards v. Aguillard (1987)
Chapter 40 Corporation of the Presiding Bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints v. Amos (1987)
Chapter 41 Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association (1988)
Chapter 42 Texas Monthly, Inc. v. Bullock (1989)
Chapter 43 County of Allegheny v. American Civil Liberties Union, Greater Pittsburgh Chapter (1989)
Chapter 44 Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith (1990)
Chapter 45 Board of Education of the Westside Community Schools v. Mergens (1990)
Chapter 46 Lee v. Weisman (1992)
Chapter 47 Lamb's Chapeland John Steigerwald v. Center Moriches Union Free School District (1993)
Chapter 48 Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. City of Hialeah (1993)
Chapter 49 Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School District (1993)
Chapter 50 Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board v. Pinette (1995)
Chapter 51 Rosenberger v. Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia (1995)
Chapter 52 Agostini v. Felton (1997)
Chapter 53 City of Boerne v. Flores (1997)
Chapter 54 Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe (2000)
Chapter 55 Mitchell v. Helms (2000)
Chapter 56 Good News Club v. Milford Central School (2001)
Chapter 57 Zelman v. Simmons-Harris (2002)
Chapter 58 Locke v. Davey (2004)
Chapter 59 Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow (2004)
Chapter 60 Van Orden v. Perry (2005)
Chapter 61 McCreary County v. American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky (2005)
Chapter 62 Christian Legal Society v. Martinez (2010)
Chapter 63 Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn (2011)
Chapter 64 Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (2012)
Chapter 65 Town of Greece, NewYork v. Galloway (2014)
Chapter 66 Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores (2014)
Chapter 67 Trinity Lutheran v. Comer (2017)
Chapter 68 Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission (2018)
Chapter 69 American Legion v. American Humanist Association (2019)
Chapter 70 Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue (2020)
Chapter 71 Our Lady of Guadalupe v. Morrissey-Berru (2020)
Chapter 72 Fulton v. City of Philadelphia (2021)
Chapter 73 Shurtleff v. City of Boston (2022)
Chapter 74 Carson v. Makin (2022)
Chapter 75 Kennedy v. Bremerton School District (2022)
II. HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS
A A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom in Virginia (1777,1786)
Thomas Jefferson
B Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments (1785)
James Madison
C Massachusetts Constitution of 1780 and Barnes v. Falmouth (1810)
D Records of the First Congress Pertaining to the Drafting of the Religion Clauses of the First Amendment (1789)
E Letter to the Annual Meeting of Quakers (1789)
George Washington
F Letter to the Hebrew Congregation at Newport (1790)
George Washington
G Letter to the Danbury Baptist Association (1802)
Thomas Jefferson
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