Sentences with phrase «establishment of religion under»

The judge held that the voucher program's inclusion of religious schools was likely an unconstitutional establishment of religion under the First Amendment.

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Actually this country prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion or impeding the free exercise of religion, meaning that this country is not a country under god.

Under the establishment clause every person is also entitled to government that does not sponsor, support or inculcate one religion, religion in general or all religions collectively; that does not prefer one religion over another; that does not build up the real estate or the personnel of a religious institution or set up religious proprietaries not required to supply state - impaired religious access; and that does not compose, initiate or promulgate official prayers, rites or liturgies, or otherwise «play church.»

If I under stand correctly, Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

Judge Graham expresses in his decision thoughts that by now should be quite familiar to our readers: «The Justices of the Supreme Court disagree among themselves on the proper role of religion in public life and the extent of the Court's authority to decide these issues under the Establishment Clause.

Under the test, first proposed by Supreme Court Justice Sandra O'Connor in a 1984 case from Pawtucket, Rhode Island, a display violates the Establishment Clause if it amounts to an official endorsement of religion, that is, if it suggests that the government approves a particular religious message (or disapproves such a message, though that issue does not regularly arise).

This rejectionism had, over time, crystallized — some would say, fossilized — into the view that the legal establishment of the Catholic Church as the official religion of the state was the desired arrangement (the «thesis,» in the theological jargon of the day), while other arrangements (like the American constitutional order) were mere «hypotheses» that could, under certain historical circumstances, be «tolerated» — even as Catholics in countries governed by the «hypothesis» worked for the day when the «thesis» of Catholic establishment could be....

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, in San Francisco, voted 15 - 9 against formal reconsideration of the 2 - 1 ruling last June by a panel of the court that the inclusion of the words «under God» in the pledge was an unconstitutional government establishment of religion.

A church has no special status in the US whereby one can be granted immunity from arrest, and there could not be under the First Amendment, in that it would amount to an establishment of religion (granting a special privilege to a church).