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Peer reviewedPitts, Mark – Religion & Public Education, 1992
Reviews the constitutions of several western states that provide an absolute barrier between religion and public education. Asserts that these laws were passed after the Civil War when concern about minority religious influence in some states was high. Maintains that these state laws may be the next battleground in the ongoing controversy about…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal State Relationship, Government Role
Download full textParachini, Allan; And Others – 1995
Placing the debate in the United States over amending the Constitution to permit state-sanctioned school prayer in global perspective, this report analyzes the results of a survey of the school prayer policies of 72 countries. The report concludes that the vast majority of the major countries of the world, including Western Europe, Central…
Descriptors: Civil Law, Civil Liberties, Comparative Analysis, Constitutional History
