Kansas enacts a law requiring all businesses in the state to donate 10 percent of their profits to Protestant churches that provide certain services to persons whose income is below the poverty level. Lo-Price Stores files a suit to block the law's enforcement. The court would likely hold that this law violates
A)no clause in the U.S. Constitution.
B)the establishment clause.
C)the free exercise clause.
D)the supremacy clause.

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The law likely violates the establishment clause of the First Amendment, which prohibits the government from making any law "respecting an establishment of religion." By requiring businesses to donate a portion of their profits specifically to Protestant churches, the law appears to favor one religion over others, which is unconstitutional under the establishment clause.

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