American Government / Unit 3 Gov 140 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Lemon Test
Captions available
The idea
Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971) set a three-part establishment test: a secular purpose, no advancing or inhibiting religion, no excessive entanglement.
In practice
For decades a law failing any one of the three prongs failed the clause.
Where people slip
Know this test as history: the Court has since abandoned it, and the next entry says what replaced it.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Something wrong in this lesson? Flag it · Sources for American Government