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Zulu123

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Which Supreme Court case declared that only a compelling state interest could justify denying an exception to providing unemployment benefits to a Seventh-day Adventist who refuses to work on the Sabbath?
 
  a. Sherbert v. Verner (1963)
  b. Employment Division v. Smith (1990)
  c. West Virginia v. Barnette (1943)
  d. Benton v. Maryland (1969)
  e. Klopfer v. North Carolina (1967)

Question 2

Who makes the determination what rights of religious freedom might exist under the free exercise clause of the First Amendment?
 
  a. the president
  b. Congress
  c. state legislatures
  d. the U.S. Supreme Court
  e. the voters



Juro

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Answer to Question 1

ANS: A

Answer to Question 2

ANS: D



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