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Read the excerpt from the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
At the time it was written, this clause originally applied to
state law only.
federal law only.
state and federal law.
local, state, and federal law.
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federal law only.
The wording ("Congress shall make no law...") originally restricted only the federal government. Most First Amendment protections were later applied to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment via Supreme Court incorporation decisions (beginning with cases like Gitlow v. New York).
The wording ("Congress shall make no law...") originally restricted only the federal government. Most First Amendment protections were later applied to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment via Supreme Court incorporation decisions (beginning with cases like Gitlow v. New York).
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