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29 B.U. Pub. Int. L.J. 169 (2019-2020)
Establishment Clause Health on a Restricted, Artificial Lemon Diet

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ESTABLISHMENT CLAUSE HEALTH ON A RESTRICTED,
                    ARTIFICIAL LEMON DIET

                            MARK STRASSER*



IN TRO D U C TIO N  ............................................................................................... 169
THE EVOLVING LEMON TEST AND ITS APPLICATION ...................................... 171
       A . The L em on Test ............................................................................ 17 1
       B. The Wavering Commitment to Enforcing Establishment
           G uarantees ..............................................................................  183
C O N C LU SIO N   ................................................................................................... 2 19



                              INTRODUCTION
   The Establishment Clause precludes the state from favoring or disfavoring
religion.' Regrettably, the Court has offered no coherent account of which
practices violate Establishment Clause guarantees,2 and instead has announced
different tests without explaining the circumstances under which each should be
used.3 The Lemon test, although described as the prevailing test to determine












    Trustees Professor of Law, Capital University Law School, Columbus, Ohio.
    Welsh v. United States, 398 U.S. 333, 372 (1970) (White, J., dissenting) ([N]neither
support nor hostility, but neutrality, is the goal of the religion clauses of the First
Amendment.).
   I See Utah Highway Patrol Ass'n v. Am. Atheists, Inc., 565 U.S. 994,995 (2011) (Thomas,
J., dissenting from the denial of certiorari) (Today the Court rejects an opportunity to provide
clarity to an Establishment Clause jurisprudence in shambles.).
   3 See, e.g., Cty. of Allegheny v. Am. Civil Liberties Union Greater Pittsburgh Chapter,
492 U.S. 573, 592-93 (1989) (the endorsement test); Lee v. Weisman, 505 U.S. 577, 587
(1992) (the coercion test); Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U.S. 602, 612-13 (1971) (the Lemon
test).

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