 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1994 - 800 pages
...state. I applaud Justice Hugo Black's statement in the 1947 case of Everson v. Board of Education that the first amendment has erected a wall between church and state that must be high and impregnable. As you know, in the 1971 case of Lemon v. Kurtzman, the Court devised... | |
 | J. F. Maclear - 1995 - 534 pages
...their children, regardless of their religion, safely and expeditiously to and from accredited schools. The First Amendment has erected a wall between church...impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach. New Jersey has not breached it here. From Justice Jackson's Dissent: Whether the taxpayer constitutionally... | |
 | William E. Leuchtenburg - 1996 - 363 pages
...by children attending private schools, including Catholic parochial schools. Justice Black declared: "The First Amendment has erected a wall between church...impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach." But then, surprisingly, he added, "New Jersey has not breached it here." Four Justices dissented, including... | |
 | Martin E. Marty - 1986 - 572 pages
...to erect 'a wall of separation between church and State.' " After elaborating, the Court concluded: "The First Amendment has erected a wall between church...impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach." Almost as an afterthought, it ruled, "New Jersey has not breached it here." One of the most controversial... | |
 | Ronald F. Thiemann - 1996 - 208 pages
...basically reconceived and perhaps even abandoned." "The First Amendment has erected a wall [of separation] between church and state. That wall must be kept high...and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach."7 The day Justice Hugo Black penned those fateful words, the US Supreme Court was convened... | |
 | James W. Fraser - 2000 - 296 pages
...in its relationships with believers and nonbelieveres, Justice Black wrote for a slim majority that "The First Amendment has erected a wall between church...impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach. New Jersey has not breached it here."22 Justice Jackson sarcastically remarked that Black's majority... | |
 | Richard M Battistoni - 2000 - 198 pages
...believers and nonbelievers; it does not require the state First Amendment: Freedom of Religion 154 The First Amendment has erected a wall between church...impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach. New Jersey has not breached it here. Affirmed. MR. JUSTICE JACKSON, dissenting. . . . The New Jersey... | |
 | Barbara A. Holmes - 2000 - 180 pages
...Justice Hugo Black's opinion in Everson v. Board of Education, 330 US 1, 16 (1947). Justice Black wrote: "The First Amendment has erected a wall between church...impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach." See also Ronald F. Thiemann, Religion in Public Life: A Dilemma for Democracy (Washington, DC: Georgetown... | |
 | Frank Guliuzza - 2000 - 240 pages
...Jersey's program, over vigorous dissent, 36 Black once again returned to the separation theme. He argued, "The first amendment has erected a wall between church...impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach." 37 Since Black did not retreat from his separationist argument—rather, he sandwiched his discussion... | |
 | John E. Semonche - 2000 - 532 pages
...principle. Citing Jefferson, Black, for the majority, described the constitutional barrier as follows: "The First Amendment has erected a wall between church...and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach."92 With its free exercise counterpart, the prohibition on establishment, Black said, was designed... | |
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The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach. 
