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Government Nonendorsement, Nelson Tebbe Dec 2013

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 …


Davey And The Limits Of Equality, Laura S. Underkuffler Jan 2004

Davey And The Limits Of Equality, Laura S. Underkuffler

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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