 | United States. Supreme Court - 1947 - 1244 strani
...hand, it has secured religious liberty from the invasion of the civil authority." The "establishment of religion" clause of the First Amendment means at...all religions, or prefer one religion over another. Neither can force nor influence a person to go to or to remain away from church against his will or... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor - 1949 - 976 strani
...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,...prefer one religion over another. No tax in any amount can be levied to support any religious activity or institutions whatever they may be called or whatever... | |
 | Joseph Hugh Brady - 1954 - 214 strani
...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...all religions, or prefer one religion over another. Neither can force nor influence a person to go to or to remain away from church against his will or... | |
 | Alan Mittleman, Robert Licht, Jonathan D. Sarna - 2002 - 396 strani
...Referring to both Jefferson and Madison, Black concluded that "the 'establishment of religion' . . . means at least this: Neither a state nor the Federal...all religions, or prefer one religion over another." Justice Rutledge, in dissenting to the majority's decision to uphold public funding of the transportation... | |
 | Jacob W. Ehrlich - 2002 - 242 strani
...First Amendment, made equally applicable to the states by the Fourteenth Amendment, means that neither a state nor the Federal government can set up a church....all religions, or prefer one religion over another. Neither can force or influence a person to go to or remain away from church against his will or force... | |
 | Loren P. Beth - 2002 - 192 strani
...significant addition to the theory of separation. It has set up the standard that no American government can "pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion above another."53 The "all religions" clause has aroused a furore among many sincerely religious people;... | |
 | Stephen K. Shaw, William D. Pederson - 2004 - 284 strani
...most frequently quoted and frequently assailed paragraphs in the Court's history: The "establishment of religion" clause of the First Amendment means at...all religions, or prefer one religion over another. Neither can force nor influence a person to go to or to remain away from church against his will or... | |
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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. 
