Sentences with phrase «recent establishment clause»

The «hybridization» of home schooling has, along with other choice mechanisms and recent Establishment Clause interpretation, blurred the line between government and private educational spheres.

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Recent attempts to use the establishment clause as an engine of secularity have had some effect, but such attempts rely on distortions of both the past and present, and in themselves are no more «religiously neutral» than the generalized acceptance of Christian dominance that preceded them.

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)

In recent years the courts have been especially sensitive to the establishment clause, and in doing so they have greatly narrowed the definition of free expression.

In the most recent form of this debate, the courts have ruled that Creation - Science is not science but the propagation of particular religious beliefs, and as such the mandatory requirement of it being taught in public schools violates the establishment clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution.