free exercise
Worship without interference
Free exercise refers to the constitutional right to practice one's religion without government interference, from the First Amendment's "free exercise clause." The term appears almost exclusively in legal contexts discussing religious liberty: The law was challenged on free exercise grounds.
Courts balance free exercise claims against compelling government interests.
- First AmendmentConstitutional free expression guarantee
- libertyAbsence of unjust constraint
- worshipReligious reverence and praise
- religionSystem of spiritual belief
- amendmentChange to official text
constitutional · practice · rights · civil liberties · conscience · religious practice · belief · prayer · expression · unrestricted · unhindered · movement · physical activity · autonomy · spiritual · observance · devotion · ritual
- rightscivil liberties, constitutional rights, right, rights, human rights
- Secularismsecular humanism, secular state, separation of church and state, disestablishment, church and state
- theopoliticstheocracy, Christian right, religious right, separation of church and state, state religion
- tolerancetolerance, forbearance, patience, understanding, empathy
- school religionschool prayer, prayer in schools, religious education, religious instruction, religious studies
- religious lawreligious law, canon law, sharia, Islamic law, sacred law
free exerciseestablishment clause
Government religion neutrality mandate
state religion · religious establishment · establishment · non-establishment · established church
free exercisereligious persecution
Harming others for faith
religious intolerance · religious discrimination · blasphemy laws
free, exercise, freed, freely, freedom, freeing, freer, freest, freeman