School Prayers: Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary. House of Representatives, Eighty-eighth Congress, Second Session, on Proposed Amendments to the Constitution Relating to Prayers and Bible Reading in the Public Schools ... |
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Page 1823 - clause of the first amendment means at least this : Neither a State »or the Federal Government can set up a church. Neither can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion over another * * *. In the words of Jefferson, the clause against establishment of religion by law was
Page 1930 - of the people the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designated. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this in one instance may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.
Page 2523 - by the board of regents, a State agency, a nonsectarian prayer, for use in the schools of that State. The prayer was simple, all encompassing in its reference to one God, and is quoted as follows: "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and we beg Thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers, and our country.
Page 2277 - or secretly, participate in the affairs of any religious organizations or groups or vice versa. In the words of Jefferson, the clause against establishment of religion by law was intended to erect 'a wall of separation between church and
Page 2400 - you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise." I was taught that prayer anywhere, anytime, in or outside a house of worship. is appropriate. I find it extremely illogical to assume it could dilute or in any way interfere with people's regular devotions in churches or synagogues of their
Page 2232 - must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind * * *. As new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep
Page 1918 - may adopt to teach or practice religion. Neither a state nor the Federal Government can, openly or secretly, participate in the affairs of any religious organizations or groups and vice versa. In the words of Jefferson, the clause against
Page 2400 - and 6: 7. which is the elaboration of the Ten Commandments : "And these words which I command you this day shall be upon your heart: and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and
Page 2365 - it declared that the Constitution— In 1944, in Prince v. Massachusetts, the Court said : It is cardinal with us that the custody, care, and nurture of the child reside first in the parents whose primary function and freedom include preparation 'for obligations the state can neither supply nor hinder. As a
Page 2272 - other religions, may establish, with the same ease, any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects?" Those who would alter the provision of the first amendment to the Constitution would tamper with the soul of America. May God and the American people forbid. [From Western Recorder, Apr.