...national life. Their contribution has been and is enormous." But the Establishment Clause "rest[sj on the belief that a union of government and religion...tends to destroy government and to degrade religion." Engel v. Vitale, 370 US, at 431. Therefore, "[t]he Constitution decrees that religion must be a private...

...religion is plain. But the purposes underlying the Establishment Clause go much further than that. Its first and most immediate purpose rested on ,the...to destroy government and to degrade religion. The history of governmentally established religion, both in England and in this country, showed that whenever...

...religion is plain. But the purposes underlying the Establishment Clause go much further than that. Its first and most immediate purpose rested on the...to destroy government and to degrade religion. The history of governrnentally established religion, both in England and in this country, showed that whenever...

...elaboration the Court found that the "first and most immediate purpose [of the Establishment Clause] rested on the belief that a union of government and...tends to destroy government and to degrade religion." Id., at 431. When government, the Court said, allies itself with one particular form of religion, the...

...the Court found that the "first and most immediate purpose [of the Establishment Clause] rested on a belief that a union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion." Id., at 431. When government, the Court said, allies itself with one particular form of religion, the...

...the Court found that tha "first and most immediate purpose [of the Establishment Clause] rested on a belief that a union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion." Id., at 431. When government, the Court said, allies itself with one particular form of religion, the...

...the establishment clause go much farther than that. Its first and most immediate purpose is grounded on the belief that a union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to » Id. at 4SO. 20 Ibid. degrade religion. Another purpose rests upon an awareness of the fact that...

...approved religion is plain. But the purposes underlying the Establishment Clause go much further than that Its first and most immediate purpose rested on the...religion tends to destroy government and to degrade relijrion. . . . The Establishment Clause thus stands as an expression of principle on the part of...

...prayer was a State-supported religious exercise. The purpose of the establishment clause, he wrote, "rested on the belief that a union of government and...tends to destroy government and to degrade religion" (at p. 435). The clause, Justice Black said, reflects the constitutional doctrine that Government "should...

...particular religion or belief. The thought is perhaps best summed up in Justice Black's observation that "... a union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to downgrade religion." 2 Although the participation of students in reciting the Regents' prayer was voluntary,...