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In 1–2 sentences, analyze how the Supreme Court's 1971 ruling in Lemon v. Kurtzman clarified the meaning of the First Amendment.

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In Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971) the Court clarified the Establishment Clause by announcing the three‑pronged "Lemon test": a law must have a secular purpose, its principal effect must neither advance nor inhibit religion, and it must avoid excessive government entanglement with religion. This framework constrained state support for religious schools and provided a widely used standard for evaluating government‑religion interactions.