State and Local Innovations in Educations Choice: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session, October 22, 1985

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Stran 310 - The '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 it pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion over another. ... No tax in any amount, large or
Stran 336 - to accept instruction from public teachers only. The child is not the mere creature of the State: those who nurture him have the right, coupled with the high duty, to recognize and prepare him for additional obligations
Stran 312 - First, the statute must have a secular legislative purpose; second, its principal or primary effect must be one that neither advances nor inhibits religion . . . finally, the statute must not foster 'an excessive government entanglement with religion.'
Stran 316 - First, the statute must have a secular legislative purpose; second, its principal or primary effect must be one that neither advances nor inhibits religion . . .; finally, the statute must not foster "an excessive government entanglement with
Stran 329 - When the State encourages religious instruction ... It follows the best of our traditions. For It then respects the religious nature of our people, and accommodates the public service to their spiritual needs'.
Stran 367 - The fundamental theory of liberty upon which all governments in this Union repose excludes any general power of the state to standardize its children by forcing them to accept instruction from public teachers only. The child is not the mere creature of the state; those who nurture him and direct his destiny have the right, coupled with the high duty, to recognize and prepare him for additional obligations. The Court
Stran 311 - the state encourages religious instruction or cooperates with religious authorities by adjusting the schedule of public events to sectarian needs, it follows the best of our traditions.
Stran 326 - The grant of a tax exemption is not sponsorship since the government does not transfer part of its revenue to churches but simply abstains from demanding that the church support the state. . . . There is no genuine nexus between tax exemption and establishment of
Stran 356 - those who nurture him have the right, coupled with the high duty, to recognize and prepare him for additional obligations.
Stran 311 - to withstand the strictures of the Establishment Clause there must be a secular legislative purpose and a primary effect that neither advances nor inhibits

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