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Justice Hugo L Black Case

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The board of education was in Champaign County, Illinois which had let teachers with religious beliefs come into the public schools to provide 30 to 45 minutes of weekly religion instructions for the kids in grades fourth though ninth that was in public schools. Parents had printed cards that they signed authorizing that their children were able to attend these classes, and absences were reported to the school authorities. The ones that did not attend the religious instructions were not excused from any of their regular classes. The teachers were employed by the Champaign Council on religious education at no cost to the schools. They had classes that were offered to the Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish students. Programs were very popular …show more content…

Justice Hugo L. Black then wrote a majority opinion for the court. Black went straight to the point with the situation. He stated that the facts of the case were “show the use of the tax-supported property for religious instruction and the close cooperation between the school authorities and the religious council in promoting religious education”. The court then denied the ruling for McCollum’s claim which would manifest a governmental hostility for religion or towards religious teaching. The first amendment is used upon both the religion and also the government so they can best work to achieve their lofty which aims to if each can be left free from the other within it respective …show more content…

The arrangement for the Champaign presents powerful and good elements for the inherent pressure by the school system for the religious sects. The fact that the power has not been used so it can discriminate is so beside the point. Separation is for the government and the religious sects not to be fussing and also the treat them all equally. So that a child be offered an alternative that may reduce the constraint. But somehow the results are an obvious pressure upon a child to attend. Frankfurter continued to explain, that separation means separation, not something less than that. Jefferson’s metaphor is use to describe the relation between church and state speaks of this wall of separation, not of a fine line easily overstepped. Public school is at once the symbol of everyone’s democracy and the pervasive means for promoting our common destiny. The act of the state is not vital to keep out divisive forces than in its schools, so it can avoid confusion, not to say fusing, the constitution promised to keep strictly

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