...our nation, as well as to the students involved. As the Supreme Court said in the Zorach decision: "When the State encourages religious Instruction ... It follows the best of our traditions. For it then respects the religious nature of our people, and accommodates the public service to their...

...room for as wide a variety of beliefs and creeds as the spiritual needs of man deem necessary. . . . When the state encourages religious instruction . . . it follows the best of our traditions. For it then respects the religious nature of our people and accommodates the public service to their...

...room for as wide a variety of beliefs and creeds as the spiritual needs of man deem necessary. . . . When the state encourages religious instruction . . . it follows the best of our traditions. For it then respects the religious nature of our people and accommodates the public service to their...

...supra, at 313-314 (students excused from regular public school routine to obtain religious instruction; "[w]hen the state encourages religious instruction ... it follows the best of our traditions. For it then respects the religious nature of our people and accommodates the public service to their...

...consensus of friendly neutrality toward religion. It was well expressed by the Supreme Court's 1952 dictum: "When the state encourages religious instruction ... it follows the best of our traditions."22 Are Educational Tax Credits Good Public Policy? Authorization of educational tax credits...

...supra, at 313-314 (students excused from regular public school routine to obtain religious instruction; "when the state encourages religious instruction ... it follows the best of our traditions. For it then respects the religious nature of our people and accommodates the public service to their...

...neighborhoods of legal culture, is utterly at odds with our traditions. As Justice Douglas explained, "When the state encourages religious instruction . . . , it follows the best of our traditions. For then it respects the religious nature of our people and accommodates the public service to their...

...agree with Justice Douglas's statement," they wrote, that Americans were "a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being," and that...instruction ... it follows the best of our traditions." Bible reading in the schools fit that description, the editors concluded, and it did not violate anyone's...

...Justice Douglas continued: "We are a religious people and our institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.... When the state encourages religious instruction... it follows the best of our traditions... We find no constitutional requirement makes it necessary for government to be hostile to religion and...