Establishment Clause

The Court is likely to indicate quickly whether it wants to take a fresh look at the establishment clause in other contexts.

In the first place, the Establishment Clause only restricted the federal government, not the states.

Under the Establishment Clause, other students have a right to be free from religious endorsement by the government.

The establishment clause exists so that the state does not endorse or protect one form of religious expression over another.

They said the distinction took an unduly narrow view of the establishment clause.

The establishment clause was not designed to exclude or mandate such a minor exercise.

Beginning in the late 1940s, Black wrote decisions relating to the establishment clause, where he insisted on the strict separation of church and state.

Technically it's the 'Establishment Clause', but the intent is the same.

A broad reading of the Establishment Clause won out, but it seems to have its greatest current application in a public school context.

The ruling was the first to declare that a state had violated the Establishment Clause.