Confusion Twice Confounded: The First Amendment and the Supreme Court, an Historical StudySeton Hall University Press, 1954 - 192 páginas |
Términos y frases comunes
80th Congress adopted Amendment's American Anglican attend Bill Board of Education Catholic Champaign chaplains Chief Justice cites clause Congress Connecticut corporations decision disestablish distorted drafted educa enacted estab established church establishment of relig establishment of religion Everson and McCollum Ewing Township fact federal Constitution federal government figure of speech forbid Fourteenth Amendment framers Frankfurter Ibid intended interpretation James Madison Jersey Bus Jersey Eagle Jersey law Justice Black Justice Reed Justice Rutledge law respecting Legislature lishment of religion majority opinion matter meaning metaphor phrase President principle prohibition proposed amendment provision public funds public school quoted reference religious education religious establishment religious freedom religious instruction religious schools Remonstrance respecting an establishment Rutledge's sectarian sectarian schools seen separation of church sion statement stitution support of religion Supreme Court taxation Thomas Jefferson tice tion tional unconstitutional United violation Virginia wall of separation words wrote York
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Página 13 - That religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; and, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience ; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love and charity towards each other.
Página 48 - As men, whose intentions require no concealment, generally employ the words which most directly and aptly express the ideas they intend to convey, the enlightened patriots who framed our constitution, and the people who adopted it, must be understood to have employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended what they have said.
Página 75 - No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be called, or whatever form they may adopt to teach or practice religion.
Página 102 - Who does not see that the same authority which can .establish. Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects?
Página 131 - Pupils compelled by law to go to school for secular education are released in part from their legal duty upon the condition that they attend the religious classes. This is beyond all question a utilization of the tax-established and tax-supported public school system to aid religious groups to spread their faith.
Página 46 - 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...
Página 20 - Mr. MADISON said, he apprehended the meaning of the words to be, that Congress should not establish a religion, and enforce the legal observation of it by law, nor compel men to worship God in any manner contrary to their conscience.
Página 172 - We doubt very much whether any action of a State not directed, by way of discrimination, against the negroes as a class, or on account of their race, will ever be held to come within the purview of this provision.
Página 189 - The First Amendment, however, does not say that in every and all respects there shall be a separation of Church and State. Rather, it studiously defines the manner, the specific ways, in which there shall be no concert or union or dependency one on the other. That is the common sense of the matter.
Página 155 - It seems to me that to do so is to allow zeal for our own ideas of what is good in public instruction to induce us to accept the role of a super board of education for every school district in the nation.