Ordinarily political debate and division, however vigorous or even partisan, are normal and healthy manifestations of our democratic system of government, but political division along religious lines was one of the principal evils against which the First... Part 12, National Organizations: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on ... - Page 195by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education - 1977 - 554 pagesFull view - About this book
| Clifford P. Hooker - Education - 1978 - 416 pages
...require periodic legislative appropriations, would lead to bitter political strife along religious lines, "one of the principal evils against which the First Amendment was intended to protect."81 As a federal district court has recognized, the era from Lemon I (1971) to Pittenger (1975)... | |
| Legislative power - 1983 - 878 pages
...practice of employing legislative chaplains has ever created any of the political divisiveness which "was one of the principal evils against which the First Amendment was intended to protect." Nevertheless, the Eighth Circuit again summarily rejected the district court's conclusion and announced... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Constitutional amendments - 1982 - 548 pages
..."nondenominational" prayer.88 Its cure, however, is even worse than the disease. As the Court has observed, "political division along religious lines was one...which the First Amendment was intended to protect. "89 jn Enqel , for example. Justice Black traced the tumultuous history of The Book of Common Prayer,... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance - Private schools - 1982 - 412 pages
...or even partisan are normal and healthy manifestations of our democratic system of government, but political division along religious lines was one of...which the First Amendment was intended to protect." This bill could so entangle religion and politics that two centuries of progress in First Amendment... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Constitutional amendments - 1982 - 518 pages
...but especially sectarian prayer as well. As the Supreme Court has observed, political divisions among religious lines was one of the principal evils against...which the first amendment was intended to protect. The lesson of history is that competition among religious sects has occasioned considerable civil strife.... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - Ambassadors - 1984 - 196 pages
...or even partisan, are normal and healthy manifestations of our democratic system of government, but political division along religious lines was one of...which the First Amendment was intended to protect. . . . The potential divisiveness of such conflict is a threat to the normal political process. We have... | |
| Lee C. Bollinger Dean University of Michigan Law School - Law - 1986 - 310 pages
...or even partisan, are normal and healthy manifestations of our democratic system of government, but political division along religious lines was one of...which the First Amendment was intended to protect — It conflicts with our whole history and tradition to permit questions of the Religion Clauses to... | |
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