The Religious Freedom Restoration Act,passed by Congress in 1993,was an attempt to

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The Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) was intended to provide greater protection of religious freedoms and beliefs than the Supreme Court had been allowing. The act's purpose was to "restore the compelling interest test" as a standard for evaluating laws that affect the exercise of religion. This meant that laws could not substantially burden a person's free exercise of religion unless the government had a compelling interest in imposing the burden and it was done in the least restrictive way possible. The RFRA was a response to the Supreme Court's decision in Employment Division v. Smith (1990), which held that the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment did not require exemptions from generally applicable laws that incidentally burdened religious practices.

The Religious Freedom Restoration Act,passed by Congress in 1993,was an Attempt