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 pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion over another. Hearings - Page 140by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare - 1965Full view - About this book
| United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1988 - 970 pages
...Everson v. Boari of Education, supra, at 15-16, stated: "Neither [a State nor the Federal Government] can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion over another. ... No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions,... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare - 1947 - 1208 pages
...slightest breach. The establishment of religion clause of the first amendment means at least this: Neither can pass laws which aid one religion, aid...all religions, or prefer one religion over another. No tax in any amount, large or small, can be [levied to support any religioxis activities or institutions,... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Public Welfare - Education - 1947 - 622 pages
...breach." "The 'establishment of religion' clause of the first amendment means at least this: * * * Neither can pass laws which aid one religion, aid...all religions, or prefer one religion over another. * * * No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to .support any religious activities or institutions,... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare - 1947 - 652 pages
...breach." "The 'establishment of religion' clause of the first amendment means at least this: * * * Neither can pass laws which aid one religion, aid...all religions, or prefer one religion over another. * * * No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions,... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor - 1947 - 808 pages
...religion" clause of the first amendment means at least this : * * * Neither State nor Federal Government can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion over another. * * * No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions,... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor - Education - 1949 - 976 pages
...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, or prefer one religion over another. No tax in any amount can be levied to support any religious activity or institutions whatever they... | |
| Ian Shapiro - Law - 2001 - 316 pages
...the Establishment Clause. Although neither a State nor the Federal Government can constitutionally "pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion over another," Everson v. Board of Education, 330 US 1, 15, it does not follow that a statute violates the Establishment... | |
| Jacob W. Ehrlich - Bible - 2002 - 242 pages
...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....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 him to profess... | |
| Alan Mittleman, Robert Licht, Jonathan D. Sarna - History - 2002 - 396 pages
...both Jefferson and Madison, Black concluded that "the 'establishment of religion' . . . means at least this: Neither a state nor the Federal government can...all religions, or prefer one religion over another." Justice Rutledge, in dissenting to the majority's decision to uphold public funding of the transportation... | |
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