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.

question - in 1827, john walker, a druggist in a small english town, tipped a splint with sulphur, chlorate of potash, and sulphid of antimony, and rubbed it on sandpaper, and it burst into flame. the druggist had discovered the first friction-chemical match, the kind we use to-day. it is called friction-chemical because it is made by mixing certain chemicals together and rubbing them. although walker's match did not require the bottle of acid, nevertheless it was not a good one. it could be lighted only by hard rubbing, and it sputtered and threw fire in all directions. in a few years, however, phosphorus was substituted on the tip for antimony, and the change worked wonders. the match could now be lighted with very little rubbing, and it was no longer necessary to have sandpaper upon which to rub it. it would ignite when rubbed on any dry surface, and there was no longer any sputtering. this was the phosphorus match, the match with which we are so familiar. according the paragraph what was the benefit of the new phosphorus match? it burst into flame when rubbed on sandpaper. it was made by mixing chemicals. it could be ignited on any dry surface. it threw fire in all directions.

answer - matches required natural chemicals