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Government Nonendorsement, Nelson Tebbe
Government Nonendorsement, Nelson Tebbe
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
What are the constitutional limits on government endorsement? Judges and scholars typically assume that when the government speaks on its own account, it faces few restrictions. In fact, they often say that the only real restriction on government speech is the Establishment Clause. On this view, officials cannot endorse, say, Christianity, but otherwise they enjoy wide latitude to promote democracy or denigrate smoking. Two doctrines and their accompanying literatures have fed this impression. First, the Court’s recent free speech cases have suggested that government speech is virtually unfettered. Second, experts on religious freedom have long assumed that there is no …
Unwanted Exposure To Religious Expression By Government: Standing And The Establishment Clause, Carl H. Esbeck
Unwanted Exposure To Religious Expression By Government: Standing And The Establishment Clause, Carl H. Esbeck
Faculty Publications
For nearly half a century the Supreme Court has relaxed traditional standards of justiciability and permitted taxpayer standing when a claimant has invoked the Establishment Clause in a lawsuit to prohibit government funding of religion. The Court has recently cutback, however, permitting taxpayer standing only when a tax is extracted from the claimant and money is appropriated by a legislature to fund a statutory program that directs the use of public aid for religion.
Understanding The Establishment Clause: A Revisit, Robert A. Sedler
Understanding The Establishment Clause: A Revisit, Robert A. Sedler
Law Faculty Research Publications
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