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Finding A True Story Of American Religion: Comments On L.H. Larue's Constitutional Law As Fiction: Narrative In The Rhetoric Of Authority, Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
Finding A True Story Of American Religion: Comments On L.H. Larue's Constitutional Law As Fiction: Narrative In The Rhetoric Of Authority, Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
Washington and Lee Law Review
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All The Company Of Heaven, Milner S. Ball
All The Company Of Heaven, Milner S. Ball
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Joseph Vining, From Newton's Sleep
L'Affaire Des Foulards--Discrimination, Or The Price Of A Secular Public Education System?, Cynthia D. Baines
L'Affaire Des Foulards--Discrimination, Or The Price Of A Secular Public Education System?, Cynthia D. Baines
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
This Note examines the recent controversy over France's ban against "ostentatious" religious symbols in public schools. The only ostentatious symbol targeted by the French government, however, has been the head scarves worn by Muslim schoolgirls. The author explores the roots of the current ban by examining France's tradition of assimilation of immigrants and its constitutionally mandated secular public education system. The author also compares France's interests in prohibiting head scarves with the Muslim students' interests in practicing their religion. Finally, the author concludes that the French policy of banning head scarves from school is not only impractical, but likely a …