freedom of religion

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• noun The right of people to hold any religious beliefs, or none, and to carry out any practices in accordance with those beliefs or with that absence of belief, so long as these practices do not interfere with other people's legal or civil rights, or any reasonable laws, without fear of harm or prosecution.

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• noun a civil right guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution