How has the First Amendment been interpreted in the context of religious freedom?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from George v. United States, 196 F.2d 445 (9th Cir. 1952):
Later decisions have emphasized the scope of the First Amendment as forbidding (a) compulsion of acceptance of any creed, and (b) guarantee of free exercise of any chosen form of religion. United States v. Ballard, 1944, 322 U.S. 78, 86-87, 64 S.Ct. 882, 88 L.Ed. 1148.
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