Constitutional Amendment Relating to School Prayer: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session, on S.J. Res. 2 ... June 19, 1985U.S. Government Printing Office, 1986 - 264 strani |
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Abington Abington School District Alabama statute American American Lutheran Church believe Bible Bill of Rights Chairman Christian classroom Committee Congress conscience constitutional amendment Dean REDLICH debate dissenting District Court emphasis added enacted encourage endorsement Establishment Clause establishment of religion favor federal framers free exercise individual intent issue Jaffree Jaffree decision Jewish John Paul Stevens June legislative Lemon test Lutheran Church Madison majority MALBIN ment moment of silence morality neutrality Northwest Ordinance official period of silence pray prayer in public prayer or reflection principle prohibit proposed amendment proposed constitutional amendment protected public education public schools question religious activities religious exercise religious freedom religious liberty S.J. Res Schempp school day school prayer sect secular purpose Senator HATCH separation of church silence statutes Stat statement subcommittee teachers tion U.S. Supreme Court unconstitutional United vocal prayer voluntary prayer WALLACE word prayer worship
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Stran 106 - If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein If there are any circumstances which permit an exception, they do not now occur to us.
Stran 68 - ... preferring those who believe in no religion over those who do believe." We do not agree, however, that this decision in any sense has that effect. In addition, it might well be said that one's education is not complete without a study of comparative religion or the history of religion and its relationship to the advancement of civilization. It certainly may be said that the Bible is worthy of study for its literary and historic qualities. Nothing we have said here indicates that such study of...
Stran 181 - We maintain therefore that in matters of Religion, no man's right is abridged by the institution of Civil Society, and that Religion is wholly exempt from its cognizance.
Stran 188 - When the power, prestige and financial support of government is placed behind a particular religious belief, the indirect coercive pressure upon religious minorities to conform to the prevailing officially approved religion is plain.
Stran 179 - Probably at the time of the adoption of the Constitution, and of the amendment to it now under consideration, the general if not the universal sentiment in America was, that Christianity ought to receive encouragement from the state so far as was not incompatible with the private rights of conscience and the freedom of religious worship. An attempt to level all religions, and to make it a matter of state policy to hold all in utter indifference, would have created universal disapprobation, if not...
Stran 43 - No person demeaning himself in a peaceable and orderly manner, shall ever be molested on account of his mode of worship or religious sentiments, in the said territory.
Stran 57 - As the happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend upon piety, religion and morality ; and as these cannot be generally diffused through a community, but by the institution of the public worship of GOD, and of public instructions in piety, religion and morality...
Stran 246 - Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me " to recommend to the people of the United States a. day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness...
Stran 224 - ... levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be called, or whatever form they may adopt to teach or practice religion. Neither a state nor the Federal Government can, openly or secretly, participate in the affairs of any religious organizations or groups and vice versa. In the words of Jefferson, the clause against establishment of religion by law was intended to erect "a wall of separation between Church and State.
Stran 181 - It is neither sacrilegious nor antireligious to say that each separate government in this country should stay out of the business of writing or sanctioning official prayers and leave that purely religious function to the people themselves and to those the people choose to look to for religious guidance*.