Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1964
Publication Information
50 A.B.A. J. 1057 (1964)
Abstract
It is not my purpose here to discuss the possible extensions of the school prayer decisions. Rather, I am concerned only with the thought that the unqualified incorporation of the broad definition of religion into the establishment clause is perhaps the root fallacy in the Court's reasoning. In order to avoid an institutionalization of agnosticism as the official public religion of this country, the Court ought to acknowledge that nontheistic religions are not entitled to such unqualified recognition under the establishment clause as to bar even a simple governmental affirmation that in fact the Declaration of Independence is true when it states the existence of God.
Recommended Citation
Charles E. Rice,
The Meaning of "Religion" in the School Prayer Cases,
50 A.B.A. J. 1057 (1964).
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Reprinted with permission of the ABA Law Journal.