Which Supreme Court case declared that only a compelling state interest could justify denying an exception to providing unemployment benefits to a Seventh-day Adventist who refuses to work on the Sabbath?
a. Sherbert v. Verner (1963)
b. Employment Division v. Smith (1990)
c. West Virginia v. Barnette (1943)
d. Benton v. Maryland (1969)
e. Klopfer v. North Carolina (1967)
ANS: A
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