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Zirkel, Perry A. – 1985
Using recent establishment clause decisions concerning vocal prayer, silent meditation, and prayer groups in the public schools, this article suggests that courts have applied the seemingly consistent doctrine of the tripartite test to arrive at quite different results, based in part on extralegal sources. Two such sources are the attitudinal…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education