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Taking Pierce Seriously: The Family, Religious Education, And Harm To Children, Richard W. Garnett
Taking Pierce Seriously: The Family, Religious Education, And Harm To Children, Richard W. Garnett
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Many States exempt religious parents from prosecution, or limit their exposure to criminal liability, when their failure to seek medical care for their sick or injured children is motivated by religious belief. This paper explores the question what, if anything, the debate about these exemptions says about the state's authority to override parents' decisions about education, particularly religious education. If we accept, for example, that the state may in some cases require medical treatment for a child, over her parents' objections, to avoid serious injury or death, should it follow that it may regulate, or even forbid, a child's religious …
Excusing Of Public School Pupils For Religious Instruction, Thomas F. Broden
Excusing Of Public School Pupils For Religious Instruction, Thomas F. Broden
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The separation of Church and State, according to the precepts of the American form of constitutional government, imposes no duty on the public school system to erect a barrier of hostility and antagonism against religion or the churches. Accordingly, a regulation of the Board of Education excusing the weekly absences of pupils for the purpose of receiving religious instruction does not, it was held in People ex rel. Latimer et al. v. Board of Education of City of Chicago, do violence to the compulsory attendance law and is a reasonable rule for the practical administration of the public schools.