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The Lemon Test

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*Lemon v. Kurtzman* (1971) set a three-part establishment test: a secular purpose, no advancing or inhibiting religion, no excessive entanglement.

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For decades a law failing any one of the three prongs failed the clause.

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Know this test as history: the Court has since abandoned it, and the next entry says what replaced it.