The First Amendment: the free exercise of religion clause

Introductory themes: religious freedom at the founding and today

The basic question of exemptions

The debate over exemptions and constitutional history

Why should religious freedom have distinctive constitutional protection?

Defining "religion"

Free exercise under current doctrine

Judicial exemptions: balancing harms to religion against harms to society

The debate over the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA)

Legislative Accommodations, the institutional roles of courts and legislatures, and the establishment clause

Religious institutions' free exercise

Free exercise and government funding.