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Marsh V. Chambers: The Supreme Court Takes A New Look At The Establishment Clause, Diane L. Walker
Marsh V. Chambers: The Supreme Court Takes A New Look At The Establishment Clause, Diane L. Walker
Pepperdine Law Review
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"Student-Initiated" Prayer: Assessing The Newest Initiatives To Return Prayer To The Public Schools, Jessica Smith
"Student-Initiated" Prayer: Assessing The Newest Initiatives To Return Prayer To The Public Schools, Jessica Smith
Campbell Law Review
Section I of this article discusses the impetus for the recent spate of "student-initiated" prayer statutes, guidelines, and policies. The discussion includes a summary of existing provisions as well as detailed accounts of the history and development of two "student-initiated" prayer efforts. These accounts, which chronicle the development of initiatives in Florida and Mississippi, expose the ruse of "student-initiated" prayer. The accounts demonstrate that regardless of how the initiatives were promoted or disguised, their true purpose was not to protect students' rights of free speech and free exercise but to promote prayer. Section II challenges the new initiatives on constitutional …
The Death Of Graduation Prayer: The Parrot Sketch Redux, J. Alexander Tanford
The Death Of Graduation Prayer: The Parrot Sketch Redux, J. Alexander Tanford
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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The Meaning Of "Religion" In The School Prayer Cases, Charles E. Rice
The Meaning Of "Religion" In The School Prayer Cases, Charles E. Rice
Journal Articles
It is not my purpose here to discuss the possible extensions of the school prayer decisions. Rather, I am concerned only with the thought that the unqualified incorporation of the broad definition of religion into the establishment clause is perhaps the root fallacy in the Court's reasoning. In order to avoid an institutionalization of agnosticism as the official public religion of this country, the Court ought to acknowledge that nontheistic religions are not entitled to such unqualified recognition under the establishment clause as to bar even a simple governmental affirmation that in fact the Declaration of Independence is true when …