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Religious V. Secular Ideologies And Sex Education: A Response To Professors Cahn And Carbone, Vivian E. Hamilton
Religious V. Secular Ideologies And Sex Education: A Response To Professors Cahn And Carbone, Vivian E. Hamilton
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Symposium Introduction: The Religion Clauses In The 21st Century, William P. Marshall, Vivian E. Hamilton, John E. Taylor
Symposium Introduction: The Religion Clauses In The 21st Century, William P. Marshall, Vivian E. Hamilton, John E. Taylor
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Coercion And Choice Under The Establishment Clause, Cynthia V. Ward
Coercion And Choice Under The Establishment Clause, Cynthia V. Ward
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In recent Establishment Clause cases the Supreme Court has found nondenominational, state-sponsored prayers unconstitutionally "coercive" -although attendance at the events featuring the prayer was not required by the state; religious dissenters were free to choose not to say the challenged prayers; and dissenters who so chose, or who chose not to attend the events, suffered no state-enforced sanction. Part I of this Article lays out the historical background that gave rise to the coercion test, traces the development of that test in the Court's case law, and isolates the core elements in the vision of coercion that animates the test. …
Judicial Review And Nongeneralizable Cases, Neal Devins, Alan J. Meese
Judicial Review And Nongeneralizable Cases, Neal Devins, Alan J. Meese
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Putting Religious Symbolism In Context: A Linguistic Critique Of The Endorsement Test, B. Jessie Hill
Putting Religious Symbolism In Context: A Linguistic Critique Of The Endorsement Test, B. Jessie Hill
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The Supreme Court's jurisprudence concerning public displays of religious symbols is notoriously unpredictable. In this Article, Professor Hill argues that the instability and apparent incoherence of the Supreme Court's religious symbolism jurisprudence is due to certain difficulties inherent in discerning the "meaning" or "message" of a religious display. In particular, she attributes the unpredictability of the jurisprudence to the fact that the meaning of the display is dependent on the "context," which is itself an unmanageable and unformalizable concept. This Article, which draws on insights from literary and linguistic theory, breaks with previous commentators' claims that the difficulties with the …
The Story Of A Forgotten Battle, Nathan B. Oman
The Story Of A Forgotten Battle, Nathan B. Oman
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The Failure Of The Religious Freedom Restoration Act Under Section 5 Of The Fourteenth Amendment, William W. Van Alstyne
The Failure Of The Religious Freedom Restoration Act Under Section 5 Of The Fourteenth Amendment, William W. Van Alstyne
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Fundamentalist Christian Educators V. State: An Inevitable Compromise, Neal Devins
Fundamentalist Christian Educators V. State: An Inevitable Compromise, Neal Devins
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What Is “An Establishment Of Religion?", William W. Van Alstyne
What Is “An Establishment Of Religion?", William W. Van Alstyne
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Trends In The Supreme Court: Mr. Jefferson’S Crumbling Wall - A Comment On Lynch V. Donnelly, William W. Van Alstyne
Trends In The Supreme Court: Mr. Jefferson’S Crumbling Wall - A Comment On Lynch V. Donnelly, William W. Van Alstyne
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