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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The Supreme Court's ruling in Lemon v. Kurtzman established the Lemon test, which set three criteria for determining whether a law violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. These criteria include that the law must have a secular purpose, its primary effect must not be to advance or inhibit religion, and it must not result in excessive entanglement between government and religion.