 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.  Hearings - Page 2191by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare - 1963Full view - About this book
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1988 - 970 pages
...Everson v. Boari of Education, supra, at 15-16, stated: "Neither [a State nor the Federal Government] can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion over another. ... No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare - 1947 - 652 pages
...wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach. The establishment of religion clause of the first amendment means at least this: Neither can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion over another. No tax... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor - 1947 - 808 pages
...wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach. The "establishment of religion" clause of the first amendment means at least this : * * * Neither State nor Federal Government can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Public Welfare - 1947 - 622 pages
...wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach. The establishment of religion clause of the first amendment means at least this: Neither can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion over another. No tax... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor - 1949 - 976 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 religions, or prefer one religion over another. No tax in any amount can be levied to support any religious activity or institutions whatever they... | |
 | John W. Johnson - 2001 - 536 pages
...establishment clause for the first time in the Supreme Court's history, Justice Hugo Black wrote: "Neither a state nor the Federal Government can set up a church....all religions, or prefer one religion over another. . . . No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions,... | |
 | Christof H. Heyns, Peter W. Edge, Frans Viljoen - 2002 - 548 pages
...a complex concept, but the Supreme Court has stated that: "Neither [federal nor state governments] can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions,...prefer one religion over another. Neither can force or influence a person to go to or to remain away from church against this will or force him to profess... | |
 | Henry Reichman - 2001 - 236 pages
...government mandated by the Establishment Clause was written by Justice Hugo Black in 1947: Neither a state nor the Federal Government can set up a church. Neither can pass laws which aid one religion over another. Neither can force nor influence a person to go or to remain away from church against... | |
 | Ian Shapiro - 2001 - 316 pages
...the Establishment Clause. Although neither a State nor the Federal Government can constitutionally "pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion over another," Everson v. Board of Education, 330 US 1, 15, it does not follow that a statute violates the Establishment... | |
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