Practice question
A person admits that a challenged governmental rule creates no burden on her religious exercise and supplies no other free-exercise issue. She demands the State automatically prove every compelling-interest element solely because she filed a claim. Which is best?
- Filing alone conclusively establishes every threshold fact.
- Every law burdens every religion by definition.
- Escritor’s inquiry first asks whether governmental action has created the claimed religious burden; the admission cannot be ignored.
- The admission requires a court to endorse her theology.
- The Government is exempt from the Constitution in all cases.
Legal references
- Estrada v. Escritor, A.M. No. P-02-1651, June 22, 2006, main resolution: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2006/jun2006/am_p-02-1651_2006.html
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