Word: sherbert
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...Smith was to decide when the government's interest in law enforcement should take priority over someone's private religious practices. The first major ruling on that issue came in 1879, when $ Mormons were forbidden to practice polygamy. One of the leading precedents was fixed in 1963 in Sherbert v. Verner, when the Supreme Court ruled that a worker who refused to work on Saturdays because it was a day of worship was still entitled to unemployment compensation. In that opinion, the court stated that government had to demonstrate a "compelling interest" in order to justify an infringement of religious...