Astate has passed a law providing tax dollars to catholic charities. however, the state will need to work closely with each charity to ensure the money is being spent appropriately. state officials and religious officials will decide together whether each expenditure is allowed. an atheist organization sues the state, claiming that the law violates the first amendment. according to the lemon test, should the supreme court find the law constitutional or unconstitutional, and why?

In order to answer this question, we have to understand what the Establishment Clause and the Lemon Test are.

The Establishment Clause is intended to prevent governmental endorsement or support of religion. It prevents both the endorsement of a particular religion and the general endorsement of religion over non-religion. The Lemon Test is a test that is meant to determine whether a law violates this Establishment Clause:

In this example, it appears that the law should be found unconstitutional because the law fosters excessive governmental entanglement with religion.

absolute poverty the condition of having too little income to buy the necessities-- food, shelter, clothing, health care.

achieved status a social position (status) obtained through an individual's own talents and efforts.

affirmative action the requirement that employers make special efforts to recruits hire and promote qualified members of previously excluded groups including women and minorities.

aggregate a collection of unrelated people who do not know one another but who may occupy a common space--for example, a crowd of people crossing a city street.

agrarian societies societies in which large scale cultivation using plows and draft animals is the primary means of subsistence.

alienation the separation or estrangement of individuals from themselves and from others.

amalgamation the biological as well as cultural assimilation (merging) of racial or ethnic groups.

anomalies in science observations or problems that cannot be explained or solved in terms of a prevailing paradigm.

anomie a breakdown or confusion in the norms, values, and culture of a group or a society. a condition of relative normlessness.

anomie theory the theory suggesting that deviance and crime occur when there is an acute gap between cultural norms and goals and the socially structured opportunities for individuals to achieve those goals.

anticipatory socialization the process of taking on the attitudes values and behaviors of a status or role one expects to occupy in the future.

apartheid the recent policy of racial separation in south africa enforced by leg

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answer; /// all of the above;