Personal correspondence from Suzanne Northcutt, Branch Manager for Schools Funding and Coordination and the Schools Resource Group, Department of Education, Science and Training (July 2, 2007). 78. For an excellent overview of religion ...
Parents of students in New Hyde Park, NY fought to bar their public schools from requiring that students recite the state's Regents' Prayer.
In an America that is only becoming more diverse with respect to religion, this is not only the fairest approach, but the one most in tune with what the First Amendment actually prescribes.
... to have their parish taxes applied toward their own church as provided for under Article III of the Constitution. ... supreme judicial court who would write several of the crucial opinions that would bring about disestablishment.
Increasingly the Supreme Court's strict separationist, no-aid-to-religion doctrine that was in favor during the 1970s and 1980s is being challenged by a new approach aimed at equal treatment or neutrality....
These are points we do not readily grasp.
Of these immigrants, 30 percent came from North Africa, 14 percent from sub-Saharan Africa, and 4 percent from Turkey.37 France's Muslim immigrants, perhaps totaling as many as three million residents, come primarily from Algeria, ...
In a powerful challenge to conventional wisdom, Philip Hamburger argues that the separation of church and state has no historical foundation in the First Amendment.
Edited and with running commentary by Forrest Church, this important collection informs anyone curious about the original blueprint for our country and its government.
The ACLU chose William Butler as their lead counsel. Butler was a member of the New York Civil Liberties Union, which was the local ACLU chapter. He was also a practicing Catholic and a conservative corporate lawyer.