...the 421 Opinion of the Court. legislation was being considered and passed in other States.12 By the time of the adoption of the Constitution, our history...stamp of approval upon one particular kind of prayer or one particular form of religious services. They knew the anguish, hardship and bitter strife that...

...Similar though less far-reaching legislation was being considered and passed in other States.12 By the time of the adoption of the Constitution, our history...stamp of approval upon one particular kind of prayer or one particular form of religious services. They knew the anguish, hardship and bitter strife that...

...Similar though less far-reaching legislation was being considered and passed in other States.12 By the time of the adoption of the Constitution, our history...bitter personal experience, that one of the greatest clear whether Catholics were allowed to vote. Compare Fiske, The Critical Period in American History...

...Similar though less far-reaching legislation was being considered and passed in other States.12 By the time of the adoption of the Constitution, our history...bitter personal experience, that one of the greatest clear whether Catholics were allowed to vote. Compare Fiske, The Critical Period in American History...

...widespread awareness among many Americans of the danger of a union of church and state—the danger to the freedom of the individual to worship in his own way when government places its stamp of approval on one particular kind of prayer, and the bitter strife...

...this evil, the Constitution forbade the coincidence of governmental and religious authority. "By the time of the adoption of the Constitution, our history...Americans of the dangers of a union of Church and State. . . . The First Amendment was added to the Constitution to stand as a guarantee that neither the power...

...standard as a prerequisite in the free exercise of religion. As the Supreme Court has noted : "By the time of the adoption of the Constitution, our history...personal experience, that one of the greatest dangers to freedom of the individual to worship in his own way lay in the Government's placing its official stamp...

...clause was written into the Pirst Amendment, because—as Justice Black wrote—"these people knew, some from bitter personal experience, that one of the greatest...of approval upon one particular kind of prayer... or religious service. Justice Black pointed out that the framers of the "separation of church and state"...

...prerequisite to the free exercise of religion. As the Supreme Court has noted : "By the time of tne adoption of the Constitution, our history shows that...Americans of the dangers of a union of Church and Stute. These people knew, some of them from bitter personal experience, that one of the greatest dangers...

...public school are fully applicable to all aspects of public interference wth private religion : "By the time of the adoption of the Constitution, our history...stamp of approval upon one particular kind of prayer or one particular form of religious services. They knew the anguish, hardship and bitter strife that...