For decades prior to the Prohibition (i.e., the legal ban of alcoholic drinks) made possible by the Eighteen Amendment, different Christian churches and organizations had been objecting to the consumption of alcohol since they considered it as the source of most debauchery and moral decadence. Their goal was made clear to the federal government: alcohol should be completely banned in order to clean society up. An excise tax on alcohol would have been rejected by all the moralistic groups advocating for prohibition as a mild and ineffective measure
Strict scrutiny, moderate scrutiny, and logical basis scrutiny are three tests.
To evaluate the legitimacy of differential treatment based on a suspicious classification, a Strict scrutiny test is applied (race, ethnic origin, religion).
In free exercise clause cases, the court previously applied strict scrutiny more frequently, as in Sherbert v. Verner (1963) and Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972), but the Employment Division v. Smith decision altered the approach (1990).
When a plaintiff accuses the government of discrimination, the courts frequently use strict scrutiny. The law must have been carefully crafted to satisfy a "compelling governmental interest" and have been passed by the legislature in order to pass rigorous scrutiny.
A law impacting a fundamental right must have a compelling state purpose in order to pass under the Strict Scrutiny criterion. In order to accomplish the goal or interest of the government, the law must also be carefully crafted.
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The limits of liberty: the legacy of the American Revolution. Women could not vote, nor could half a million slaves or over a hundred thousand Native Americans. Slavery and racial segregation remained a political and cultural fault line
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