Voluntary School Prayer Constitutional Amendment: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session, on S.J. Res. 73 ... and S.J. Res. 212 ... April 29, May 2, and June 27, 1983 |
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... Democratic and Secular Humanism , and the Voice of Reason ....... 648 Jon , G. Murray , director , and Madalyn Murray O'Hair , president , on behalf of American Atheists ... 650 tatements from - Continued Page John C. Datt , on VI.
... Democratic and Secular Humanism , and the Voice of Reason ....... 648 Jon , G. Murray , director , and Madalyn Murray O'Hair , president , on behalf of American Atheists ... 650 tatements from - Continued Page John C. Datt , on VI.
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... secular purposes and excused unwilling students from participation , the Court found them to violate the Establishment Clause . Emphasizing the strict separation between church and state adopted in its previous constructions of the ...
... secular purposes and excused unwilling students from participation , the Court found them to violate the Establishment Clause . Emphasizing the strict separation between church and state adopted in its previous constructions of the ...
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... secular ends was not a violation of the first amendment unless , and only unless , preferential treatment was given one church , one religion , or one religious sect , thus ele- vating it into a preferred legal status . THE FIRST ...
... secular ends was not a violation of the first amendment unless , and only unless , preferential treatment was given one church , one religion , or one religious sect , thus ele- vating it into a preferred legal status . THE FIRST ...
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... secular purpose , I do not see the means - the establishment of the nativity scene or whatever other kind of sectarian display there might be as necessarily violating the first amendment . However , if this is only done for members of ...
... secular purpose , I do not see the means - the establishment of the nativity scene or whatever other kind of sectarian display there might be as necessarily violating the first amendment . However , if this is only done for members of ...
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... secular liturgy in Engel to be squarely contrary to the First and Fourteenth Amendments of our Constitution . Writing for the court , Justice Black observed : [ I ] t is no part of the business of government to compose official prayers ...
... secular liturgy in Engel to be squarely contrary to the First and Fourteenth Amendments of our Constitution . Writing for the court , Justice Black observed : [ I ] t is no part of the business of government to compose official prayers ...
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