Rise and Fall of the Lemon Test

This case explores the rise and fall of the so-called Lemon Test from the case of Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971). The Lemon Test was an important part of the Supreme Court's approach to the Establishment Clause for the last half century, but the recent case of American Legion v. American Humanist Association (2019) eschewed reliance on the Lemon Test and cast doubt on its continued relevance.

Om Podcasten

The 1787 Project is the podcast version of the lectures for Professor Justin Dyer's socially-distanced class on the U.S. Constitution at the University of Missouri. Running from August 2020 - May 2021, the course is about how the U.S. Constitution of 1787 frames the way we organize our life together as a political community. Published twice a week, the episodes explore who gets to decide big questions of public policy and why, analyze the design of our national political institutions and the contested boundaries between them, and look at the structure of constitutional rights.