Sentences with phrase «governmental establishment of religion»
The First Amendment's prohibition against governmental establishment of religion was written on the assumption that state aid to religion and religious schools generates discord, disharmony, hatred, and strife among our people, and that any government that supplies such aids is to that extent a tyranny....
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Those earlier rulings also recognized that a measure extending governmental assistance to sectarian schools in the performance of secular functions does not constitute a «law respecting an establishment of religion» merely because the secular program may incidentally benefit a church in fulfilling its religious mission.
Our proscription (here in US) of governmental acts with regard to the establishment of religion only works if the candidate looks like a religion.
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.