2007, ISBN: 9781234092245

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Rarebooksclub.com. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 92 pages. Original publisher: Washington, D. C. : U. S. Commission on Civil Rights, 2007 OCLC Number: (OCoLC)299606440 Subject: Government aid to private schools -- United States. Excerpt: . . . 15 1 First I want to identify the watermark of 2 a true Blaine Amendment, which is the use of the term 3 sectarian to identify those who should be excluded 4 from government aid. 5 Second, I want to describe briefly how a 6 majority of justices currently sitting on the Supreme 7 Court have already acknowledged the historical 8 connection between the Blaine Amendments and 9 anti-Catholicism. 10 Third, I would like to highlight some of 11 the growing body of historical scholarship that 12 focused on and traced out in detail those same 13 connections. 14 So on to the first point. One of the 15 surest ways to spot a Blaine Amendment in a state 16 constitution is to look for the use of the term 17 sectarian to describe the kind of entity, such as 18 school, society, or institution, that bears the 19 special legal disadvantage of being excluded from 20 government aid. 21 The term sectarian is not synonymous 22 with religious but, instead, refers to a narrower 23 subcategory connoting one or more sects or 24 denominations of religion. For example, non-sectarian 25 prayer is unmistakably religious, on the one hand, but NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE. , N. W. ( 202 ) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D. C. 20005-3701 www. nealrgross. com This item ships from La Vergne,TN., Rarebooksclub.com<