ME 2212 Lecture : IMG 1591 Notes From Class
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1st amendment congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion (establishment clause) In 1802 jefferson wrote that the 1st amendment built a wall of separation between church and state . Separationists a solid wall of separation between church and state, prohibiting most, if not all, forms of public aid for support of religion. Accommodationists - the first amendment should be read much more narrowly than it has been in recent years. State should only avoid favoring one religion over another. Some go so far as to argue that the first amendment prohibits the government from doing nothing other than creating a national. One constitutional scholar wrote: from a lawyer"s point of view, the. Establishment clause is the most frustrating part of the first amendment. The cases are an impossible tangle of divergent doctrines and seemingly conflicting results. Bradfield v. roberts, 175 u. s. 291, 295, 20 s. ct. The nuns formed a private hospital corporation through an act of.
