“There Can Be No Doubt That New York's State Prayer

question 45

Multiple Choice

“There can be no doubt that New York's state prayer program officially establishes the religious beliefs embodied in the Regents' prayer. The respondents' argument to the contrary, which is largely based upon the contention that the Regents' prayer is "nondenominational" and the fact that the program, as modified and approved by state courts, does not require all pupils to recite the prayer, but permits those who wish to do so to remain silent or be excused from the room, ignores the essential nature of the program's constitutional defects. Neither the fact that the prayer may be denominationally neutral nor the fact that its observance on the part of the students is voluntary can serve to free it from the limitations of the Establishment Clause…”
--Justice Hugo Black, Engel v. Vitale, 1962
-On which of the following constitutional principles did the Supreme Court base its decision in Engel v.Vitale?

• A)the free exercise clause -Consider This: Free exercise allows people to practice their chosen religion,but this case focused on a state institution sanctioning religion.
• B)freedom of assembly
• C)symbolic speech
• D)the establishment clause

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