The Supreme Court's ruling in Lemon v. Kurtzman established the "Lemon test," which clarified that government actions must have a secular purpose, not promote or inhibit religion, and avoid excessive government entanglement with religion to be constitutional under the First Amendment.
In the 1971 ruling of Lemon v. Kurtzman, the Supreme Court established the Lemon test, a three-pronged criterion to determine whether a law or government action violates the First Amendment's Establishment Clause by creating excessive entanglement between religion and the state.
The Supreme Court's 1971 ruling in Lemon v. Kurtzman established the "Lemon test," which clarified that government actions must have a secular purpose, must not primarily advance or inhibit religion, and must not result in excessive entanglement between government and religion in order to comply with the First Amendment.
