 | United States. Supreme Court - 1947 - 1244 pages
...hand, it has secured religious liberty from the invasion of the civil authority." The "establishment of religion" clause of the First Amendment means at...Neither can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion over another. Neither can force nor influence a person to go to or... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor - 1949 - 974 pages
...church. With that we agree. He goes on to say : Neither can it — a State or the Federal Government — pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religious, or prefer one religion over another. No tax In any amount can be levied to support any religious activity or Institutions whatever they... | |
 | Joseph Hugh Brady - 1954 - 214 pages
...have not been concerned with that aspect of the Amendment. It reads as follows: The "establishment of religion" clause of the First Amendment means at...Neither can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion over another. Neither can force nor influence a person to go to or... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1954 - 98 pages
...Everson v. Board of Education (330 US 1), United States Supreme Court unanimously decided : "Neither a State nor the Federal Government can set up a church....Neither can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion over another. * * * "In words of Jefferson, the clause against establishment... | |
 | Michael A. Ledeen - 2000 - 248 pages
...from his decision eventually broke the long honeymoon between religion and public service: "Neither a state nor the Federal Government can set up a church....Neither can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion over another." This was the opening wedge in a battle that rages... | |
 | Robert Audi - 2000 - 274 pages
...Fourteenth) as we interpreted it in Everson v. Board of Education [330 US 1, 1937]. There we said: "Neither a state nor the Federal Government can set up a church....Neither can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion over another ... No person can be punished for entertaining or professing... | |
 | Thomas J. Curry - 2001 - 166 pages
...Church-State debate in a decision that included the following much-quoted paragraph: The "establishment of religion" clause of the First Amendment means at...Neither can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion over another. Neither can force nor influence a person to go to or... | |
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establishment of religion' clause of the First Amendment means at least this: Neither a state nor the Federal Government can set up a church. Neither can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion over another. Neither... 
