| This violates the Establishment Clause, because the tablets allude to the Ten Commandments and thus endorse religion. |
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| Arkansas that forbidding the teaching of evolution violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the US Constitution. |
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| Such official proselytization and prayer by a public official is, of course, the hallmark of unconstitutional conduct under the Establishment Clause. |
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| No religious entity gets the government's imprimatur to further its religious mission, under the proper understanding of the Establishment Clause. |
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| They would not, for example, supersede federal law regarding the Establishment Clause in the First amendment. |
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| Unfortunately, taken together they render the Establishment Clause utterly hollow. |
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| In 1983, the Supreme Court heard the case of Marsh v. Chambers to determine whether reciting prayers in legislative assemblies violated the Establishment Clause in the First Amendment of the U. S. Constitution. |
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| Furthermore, AJC warned that any decision sanctioning such prayers may lead to further challenges to the Establishment Clause. |
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| The introduction largely concerns the two parts of the First Amendment, the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause. |
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| If the Establishment Clause stands for one proposition, it is that the government may not use public money to fund a religious institution or place of worship. |
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| When a state's appropriation imparts too generous a benefit to religion alone, the establishment clause should provide a pathway to dissent. |
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| The original meaning of the establishment clause has been exhaustively debated by scholars and Supreme Court Justices. |
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| Ten years ago, Frank Buono, a retired employee of the National Park Service, objected to the cross, saying it violated the establishment clause. |
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| He identifies basic principles of nonestablishment and proceeds to analyze specific establishment clause problems in light of those principles. |
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| But an exemption from property and other taxes is not a violation of the taxpayers' freedom of conscience or an abrogation of the first-amendment's establishment clause. |
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| Two other cases dealt squarely with the establishment clause. |
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