Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1984: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session, Volumele 7-10

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Pagina 7 - establishment of religion' clause of the First Amendment means at least this: Neither a state nor the Federal Government can set up a church. Neither can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion over another. Neither can force nor influence a person to go to or to remain away from church against his will or force him to profess a belief or disbelief in any religion. No person can be punished for entertaining or professing religious beliefs or disbeliefs...
Pagina 915 - ... the publisher of any bona fide newspaper, news magazine or business or financial publication of general and regular circulation...
Pagina 102 - When the power, prestige and financial support of government is placed behind a particular religious belief, the indirect coercive pressure upon religious minorities to conform to the prevailing officially approved religion is plain.
Pagina 263 - To the extent practicable, an individual stock of fish shall be managed as a unit throughout its range, and interrelated stocks of fish shall be managed as a unit or in close coordination.
Pagina 83 - No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be called, or whatever form they may adopt to teach or practice religion.
Pagina 113 - US 306, 313 (1952) , we gave specific recognition to the proposition that "[w]e are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.
Pagina 102 - Its first and most immediate purpose rested on ,the belief that a union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion.
Pagina 84 - Jefferson, the clause against establishment of religion by law was intended to erect "a wall of separation between Church and State.
Pagina 284 - optimum", with respect to the yield from a fishery, means the amount of fish — (A) which will provide the greatest overall benefit to the Nation, with particular reference to food production and recreational opportunities ; and (B) which is prescribed as such on the basis of the maximum sustainable yield from such fishery, as modified by any relevant economic, social, or ecological factor.
Pagina 102 - The Establishment Clause thus stands as an expression of principle on the part of the Founders of our Constitution that religion is too personal, too sacred, too holy, to permit its "unhallowed perversion