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Practice question: Non-establishment and Free Exercise Clauses

Multiple Choice Hard

Practice question

A municipality declares a particular denomination the mandatory faith for residents and requires worship attendance before residents may exercise ordinary civil rights. Officials defend the measure as preserving local tradition. Which is best?
  1. Tradition alone validates compulsory faith
  2. The measure implicates both non-establishment and free exercise, as well as the ban on religious tests
  3. Only nonmembers have constitutional duties
  4. A local ordinance can suspend the religion clause
  5. Civil rights exist only after worship

Legal references

  • 1987 Constitution, Article III, Sections 4 and 5: https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html

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