Sentences with phrase «against the establishment clause»

Giving days off that are specifically because of a religious connection goes against the establishment clause.

The required inquiry into «entanglement» has been modified and questioned, and in one case we have upheld state action against an Establishment Clause challenge without applying the Lemon test at all.

Not exact matches

Neither can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion to another... in the words of Jefferson, the [First Amendment] clause against establishment of religion by law was intended to erect «a wall of separation between church and State»... That wall must be kept high and impregnable.

But in many recent cases they have tended to agree more readily on another thesis: that the free - exercise clause does not interpose protections of religious obligations and practices that it once did (from 1940 to 1981), and that the establishment clause does not have the, force against government action that it once did (from 1948 to 1985)

The establishment clause argument against these hearings is equally compelling.

I hope a non-catholic employer brings an Establishment Clause suit against this exemption.

In 1947, the Court ruled that the establishment clause must be applied against the states, and that no establishment means no «promotion» of religion.

in regards to the so called violation of the establishment clause (just for the record, a law that forces a kosher deli to be closed on Sunday is not a violation of the establishment clause according to the still binding decision of the anti semetic Warren Court) since even in the super Orthodox jewish Senate district if there was a Catholic running against a Orthodox Jew and we liked the Catholic better then the Orthodox Jew on the issues then there would be only a slight disadvantage to the Catholic and depending on the issue at hand even an advantage as witnessed in the Weprin - Turner race.

And the state constitutional prohibitions against church - state cooperation or governmental aid to religion were generally less rigorous than the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.