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Symposium On Religion And The Public Schools After Lee V. Weisman- Introduction, Jonathan L. Entin Jan 1993

Symposium On Religion And The Public Schools After Lee V. Weisman- Introduction, Jonathan L. Entin

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Introduction to the Symposium: Religion and the Public Schools after Lee v. Weisman. Cleveland, Ohio, 1993


Of God And Caesar: The Free Exercise Rights Of Public School Students, George W. Dent Jan 1993

Of God And Caesar: The Free Exercise Rights Of Public School Students, George W. Dent

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No abstract provided.


Table Of United States Supreme Court Decisions Relating To Religious Liberty 1789-1994, Carl H. Esbeck Jan 1993

Table Of United States Supreme Court Decisions Relating To Religious Liberty 1789-1994, Carl H. Esbeck

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No abstract provided.


1993 Survey Of Trends And Developments On Religious Liberty In The Courts, Carl H. Esbeck Jan 1993

1993 Survey Of Trends And Developments On Religious Liberty In The Courts, Carl H. Esbeck

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The purpose of this survey is to note important case law developments in the state and lower federal courts concerning religious liberty. Purposely omitted are the widely reported United States Supreme Court opinions, as well as cases where the Supreme Court has granted review during the 1993-94 term. The focus here is on significant or interesting cases that may otherwise escape broad attention. Only the facts and rationale of each decision is summarized. No editorial comment on the merits of these cases is intended.


Government Regulation Of Religiously Based Social Services: The First Amendment Considerations, Carl H. Esbeck Jan 1992

Government Regulation Of Religiously Based Social Services: The First Amendment Considerations, Carl H. Esbeck

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A daunting welter of variables confronts anyone who sets out to systematize the First Amendment's effect on the government's role in regulating social services operated by religious organizations. The task is further complicated because the regulations in question often were promulgated as a consequence of the monitoring that inevitably accompanies government spending on private-sector welfare programs. The most suitable methodology should take into account: 1) the nature of the organizations that are the object of the government's regulation or program of aid; 2) the interrelationship between government and religious organizations that results from the regulation or aid; and 3) the …


A Judicial Postscript On The Church-State Debates Of 1989: How Porous The Wall, How Civil The State?, William W. Van Alstyne Oct 1990

A Judicial Postscript On The Church-State Debates Of 1989: How Porous The Wall, How Civil The State?, William W. Van Alstyne

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This work is a continuation of the debate regarding the Establishment Clause. The focus lies with Justice O’Connor’s concurrence in County of Allegheny v. ACLU and how this opinion harkens back to a concept shared by Jefferson and Madison, that the establishment clause is designed to prevent government favoritism.


The Lemon Test: Should It Be Retained, Reformulated Or Rejected?, Carl H. Esbeck Jan 1990

The Lemon Test: Should It Be Retained, Reformulated Or Rejected?, Carl H. Esbeck

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This essay addresses the Supreme Court's three-part establishment clause test originally set down in Lemon v. Kurtzman. Part I concerns the manner in which the Lemon test has substantially evolved. Part II explores what the evolved test has to offer by way of solving the seemingly conflicting duties not to inhibit free speech and political rights, while at the same time refraining from passing laws "respecting an establishment of religion." Finally, Part III addresses some of the proposals to supplant Lemon altogether.


First Freedom: Religion And The Bill Of Rights, Carl H. Esbeck Jan 1990

First Freedom: Religion And The Bill Of Rights, Carl H. Esbeck

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This volume is a collection of seven papers delivered at a symposium assembled in April 1989 upon the occasion, almost two hundred years hence, of the passage of the Bill of Rights by the First Congress. The unifying theme is stated to be the historical context of both Religion Clauses in the First Amendment, but the authors are driven primarily by Establishment Clause concerns. The Thrust of the essays deal with the originalism advanced during the years of Reagan Administration, and nonpreferentialism comes in for particular criticism, both pejoratively characterized as that "growing clamor".


1987 Survey Of Trends And Developments On Religious Liberty In The Courts, Carl H. Esbeck Jan 1988

1987 Survey Of Trends And Developments On Religious Liberty In The Courts, Carl H. Esbeck

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The purpose of this survey is to note important caselaw developments in the state and lower federal courts concerning religious liberty. Purposely omitted are the widely reported United States Supreme Court opinions, as well as cases where the Court has granted review during the 1987-88 term. The focus here is to collect significant cases that may otherwise escape broad attention. Only the facts and rationale of each court's decision is recorded. No editorial comment on the merits of these cases is intended.


Federal Funds To Religious Groups: Where Are The First Amendment Boundaries?, Neal Devins Jan 1988

Federal Funds To Religious Groups: Where Are The First Amendment Boundaries?, Neal Devins

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No abstract provided.


What Is “An Establishment Of Religion?", William W. Van Alstyne Jun 1987

What Is “An Establishment Of Religion?", William W. Van Alstyne

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No abstract provided.


Standing In The Need Of Prayer? The Supreme Court On James Madison And Religious Liberty, Jonathan Van Patten Jan 1987

Standing In The Need Of Prayer? The Supreme Court On James Madison And Religious Liberty, Jonathan Van Patten

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No abstract provided.


1985 Survey Of Trends And Developments On Religious Liberty In The Courts, Carl H. Esbeck Jan 1986

1985 Survey Of Trends And Developments On Religious Liberty In The Courts, Carl H. Esbeck

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The purpose of this survey is to note important caselaw developments in the state and lower federal courts concerning religious liberty during 1985. Purposely omitted are the widely reported United State Supreme Court opinions, as well as cases where the high court has granted review during its 1985-86 term. The focus here is to collect significant cases that may otherwise escape broad attention. Only the facts and rationale of each court's decision is recorded. No editorial comment on the merits of these cases is intended.


Tort Claims Against Churches And Ecclesiastical Officers: The First Amendment Considerations, Carl H. Esbeck Jan 1986

Tort Claims Against Churches And Ecclesiastical Officers: The First Amendment Considerations, Carl H. Esbeck

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Federal and state courts are increasingly confronted with the unenviable task of giving legal definition to matters affecting relations between religion and government.' Many of the lawsuits pitting church against state are surface manifestations of a more fundamental disintegration of an American public philosophy.


Five Views Of Church-State Relations In Contemporary American Thought, Carl H. Esbeck Jan 1986

Five Views Of Church-State Relations In Contemporary American Thought, Carl H. Esbeck

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Views concerning the appropriate relationship between church and state are rapidly becoming almost as numerous as America's religious sects. The Constitution's treatment of religious liberty, thought by many to be a matter long settled, has now erupted into a many-sided debate. Not only lawyers, judges and legal commentators are involved; historians and sociologists, theologians and ecclesiastics, political theorists and statesmen also participate in the debate. It is part of a much larger struggle over a redefinition, or for some a reclamation, of the role of religion in American public life. At times this debate focuses on discrete environments, such as …


1986 Survey Of Trends And Developments In Religious Liberty In The Courts, Carl H. Esbeck Jan 1986

1986 Survey Of Trends And Developments In Religious Liberty In The Courts, Carl H. Esbeck

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The purpose of this survey is to note important caselaw developments in the state and lower federal courts concerning religious liberty. Purposely omitted are the widely reported United States Supreme Court opinions, as well as cases where the high court has granted review during its 1986-87 term. The focus here is to collect significant cases that may otherwise escape broad attention. Only the facts and rationale of each court's decision is recorded. No editorial comment on the merits of these cases is intended.


Use Of Government Funding And Taxing Power To Regulate Schools, Carl H. Esbeck, Kline Capps Jan 1985

Use Of Government Funding And Taxing Power To Regulate Schools, Carl H. Esbeck, Kline Capps

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The past two decades in America have witnessed a resurgence of interest in religious-based schooling. Manifestations of this trend are evident in the increased number of primary and secondary students enrolled in religious schools and the rapidity with which new church-affiliated schools are being opened.


Toward A General Theory Of Church-State Relations And The First Amendment, Carl H. Esbeck Jan 1985

Toward A General Theory Of Church-State Relations And The First Amendment, Carl H. Esbeck

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Although government intervention in religious affairs is a new and understandably worrisome experience for many American churches, history instructs us that the confrontation is not novel. We can find some comfort in the fact that this double wrestle of state with church and state with individual believers is a perennial match. After all, it has been nearly sixty years since a brutish measure in Oregon making parochial school education unlawful had to be sidelined by the United States Supreme Court in Pierce v. Society of Sisters.' Over forty-five years ago the Supreme Court decided Lovell v. City of Griffin, snuffing …


The Naked Public Square: Religion And Democracy In America , Carl H. Esbeck Jan 1985

The Naked Public Square: Religion And Democracy In America , Carl H. Esbeck

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A crisis of confidence in our institutions and talk about loss of life's purpose are everywhere. Sociologists describe the modern individual's sense of isolation, his so-called spiritual homelessness, his weakening sense of values, and his bewilderment in the face of seemingly impersonal forces before which he feels helpless and often victimized.


Religious Symbols And The Establishment Clause, Neal Devins Jan 1985

Religious Symbols And The Establishment Clause, Neal Devins

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No abstract provided.


Establishment Clause Limits On Governmental Interference With Religious Organizations, Carl H. Esbeck Apr 1984

Establishment Clause Limits On Governmental Interference With Religious Organizations, Carl H. Esbeck

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In this article it will be argued that the establishment clause, properly viewed, functions as a structural provision regimenting the nature and degree of involvement between government and religious associations." The degree of involvement should be a limited one, although it is clear that the interrelationship need not nor cannot be eliminated altogether. Although the degree of desired separation has proven to be a continuing controversy, the goal of separation is not so divisive. The aim of separation of church and government is for each to give the other sufficient breathing space. The ordering principle is reciprocity in which "both …


Religion And A Neutral State: Imperative Or Impossibility?, Carl H. Esbeck Jan 1984

Religion And A Neutral State: Imperative Or Impossibility?, Carl H. Esbeck

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The thesis of this Article is that the myth-of-neutrality argument is partially right and partially wrong. For reasons of religious liberty, the state can and should avoid any involvement with matters of religious worship, and the propagation or inculcation of matters that comprise the very heart of one's belief concerning the nature and destiny of mankind. Conversely, the state cannot retreat from the regulation of certain conduct which is arguably immoral and still claim its neutrality concerning the rightness of the conduct. The very decision by the state to withdraw its regulation, leaving the morality of the conduct up to …


Trends In The Supreme Court: Mr. Jefferson’S Crumbling Wall - A Comment On Lynch V. Donnelly, William W. Van Alstyne Jan 1984

Trends In The Supreme Court: Mr. Jefferson’S Crumbling Wall - A Comment On Lynch V. Donnelly, William W. Van Alstyne

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No abstract provided.


State Regulation Of Christian Schools, Neal Devins Jul 1983

State Regulation Of Christian Schools, Neal Devins

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No abstract provided.


State Regulation Of Social Services Ministries Of Religious Organizations, Carl H. Esbeck Jan 1981

State Regulation Of Social Services Ministries Of Religious Organizations, Carl H. Esbeck

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Religiously motivated civil disobedience in the area of social and human services ministries of religious organizations has become increasingly widespread. With growing governmental involvement in the lives of citizens and moves by federal and state agencies to narrowly confine and define religious activities, it comes as no surprise that conflict over the proper role of the state has crept as well into the arena of social and human services conducted from religious motivation. The current litigation and legislation is principally focused on state regulation by certification or licensing requirements that are expanding from health, fire, and safety concerns into the …


The Forum Of Conscience: Applying Standards Under The Free Exercise Clause, Paul Marcus Jan 1973

The Forum Of Conscience: Applying Standards Under The Free Exercise Clause, Paul Marcus

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The 1973 Supreme Court decision in Wisconsin v. Yoder reenforced and amplified the Court's earlier holding in Sherbert v. Verner that the free exercise clause of the first amendment requires the state to render substantial deference to religiously motivated behavior in the application of its laws and regulatory schemes. In this article, Mr. Marcus traces the evolving standards of free exercise doctrine and observes that the "balancing test" which has resulted from that evolution requires still further refinement to give religious freedom its full constitutional due. The author then illustrates how the new standards of free exercise might be applied …