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" Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and we beg Thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers and our country. "
Education Legislation--1963, Hearings...88-1 - Page 1583
by United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare - 1963
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 370

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1962 - 884 pages
...in New York's regulation requiring that public schools be opened each day with the following prayer: "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon...upon us, our parents, our teachers and our Country." The prayer is said upon the commencement of the school day, immediately following the pledge of allegiance...
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Prayers in Public Schools and Other Matters: Hearings...87-2...July 26 ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1963 - 336 pages
...religion is now to have children recite a nondenominational school prayer, such as the following : "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon...upon us, our parents, our teachers, and our country." To apply the "establishment of religion" clause to such a prayer, or to any prayer, will be proved...
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Prayers in Public Schools and Other Matters: Hearings Before the Committee ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1963 - 306 pages
...following the pledge of allegiance to the flag at the beginning of each school day Is worded as follows : "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon...Thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers and onr Country." the reading of the Bible and the recitation of prayers, including the Lord's Prayer,...
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Shared-time Education: Hearings ... 88-2 ... February 24, 25, 28; and March ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor - 1964 - 648 pages
...New York's regulation requiring that public schools be opened each day with the following prayer : "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon...upon us, our parents, our teachers and our Country." The prayer is said upon the commencement of the school day, immediately following the pledge of allegiance...
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Propsed Amendments to the Constitution Relating to School Prayers: Bible ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1964 - 200 pages
...New York's regulation requiring that public schools be opened each day with the following prayer : "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon...upon us, our parents, our teachers and our Country." The prayer is said upon the commencement of the school day, immediately following the pledge of allegiance...
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Diversity and Distrust: Civic Education in a Multicultural Democracy

Stephen MACEDO, Stephen Macedo - 2009 - 368 pages
...(1991): 123-151, esp. 140-141, 127. 39. Justice Stewart dissenting in Abington, 313. 40. The prayer read, "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon...upon us, our parents, our teachers and our Country," quoted in Engel, 422. 41. Walz v. Tax Commission, 397 US 664 (1970); Rosenberger v. University of Virginia,...
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American Legal Thought from Premodernism to Postmodernism: An Intellectual ...

Stephen M. Feldman - 2000 - 288 pages
...moral and spiritual values. The Regents recommended the use of a supposedly "nondenominational" prayer: "[a]lmighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon...upon us, our parents, our teachers and our Country." In 1958, when the school board in the town of New Hyde Park, Long Island, adopted this prayer for use...
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American Legal Thought from Premodernism to Postmodernism: An Intellectual ...

Stephen M. Feldman - 2000 - 288 pages
...spiritual values. The Regents recommended the use of a supposedly "nondenominational" prayer: "[ajlmighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and...upon us, our parents, our teachers and our Country." In 1958, when the school board in the town of New Hyde Park, Long Island, adopted this prayer for use...
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America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s

Maurice Isserman, Michael Kazin - 1999 - 369 pages
...question, written by the New York Regents (the state board of education), was rather prosaic. It read, "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon...blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers and our country."13 But Jewish groups and the American Civil Liberties Union argued that it violated the First...
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What Your Child Needs to Know When: According to the Bible/According to the ...

Robin Sampson - 2009 - 316 pages
...In 1962, the Court examined a simple twenty-two word prayer, first used to negate prayer in schools: "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon...our parents, our teachers, and our country." This simple prayer, said by children, acknowledged God. Americans' indifference allowed the removal of prayer...
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