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Employment Division v. Smith  

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  • Employment Division v. Smith (1990) dramatically altered the test used to determine whether the government had violated the First Amendment's guarantee of free exercise of religion. The case arose when two men, who were members of the Native American Church and who ingested peyote as part of a church ceremony, were fired from their jobs as drug rehabilitation counselors for failing a drug test. [Source: Encyclopedia of United States Indian Policy and Law; Employment Division v. Smith (1990)]

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  • 1990

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