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Download full textZirkel, 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
Peer reviewedStarr, Isidore – Update on Law-Related Education, 1985
Implications and ramifications of the religion clauses of the First Amendment are examined. Supreme Court rulings of the last six years concerning many issues, including government and privately sponsored nativity scenes in public places, public aid to parochial schools, and equal access of religious groups to public school facilities, are…
Descriptors: Constitutional History, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Educational Facilities
