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U S Constitution Church And State
642 wordsOur constitutional rights and civil liberties come into conflict with each other periodically because of certain disagreements and new issues that arise. This week a new conflict has come into play between the U. S. Constitution and voluntary school prayer. This week the House Speaker-elect, Newt Gingrich, announced his intention to immediately push for the adoption of his proposal to amend the U. S. Constitution relating to voluntary school prayer. His proposal states: Nothing in the Constituti...
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Prayer In Public Schools
1,210 wordsPicture this, the prayer amendment has just been applied to the U. S Constitution, a Jewish kid in a public school classroom is surrounded by Christian children, including a Christian teacher. The teacher begins to recite a Christian prayer, when a Jewish child gets up out of his seat and asks, "I want to be excused from the classroom." The teacher excuses the Jewish child while the other children look at him / her in disgust. After school, the same children who ride the bus with the Jewish stud...
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Prayer In Public Schools
1,184 words... eileen church and state for this country to function collectively, and this balance will be disrupted if students who attend public school are immersed in beliefs that may be in opposition to their own. There are many arguments in favor of secular public schools that need to be addressed before pro-prayer advocates even think of the government issuing an amendment. Public schools exist for children of all cultures to receive an education free from religious propaganda. Prayer advocates claim...
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Constitutional Amendment Prayer Amendment
1,067 words... to support a new amendment. The issues of prayer in the school system used to be on the back burner but now it has been moved upstage, front and center. The discussion of a school prayer amendment is not so much about prayer itself but more about what kind of prayer should be allowed and who should be in charge of it. The American people in communities and local school boards across the country should make these decisions. Do U. S. citizens not live in a democracy? An amendment is not needed...
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Prayer In School Pledge Of Allegiance
2,200 wordsPundits and editorial writers pounced on Newt Gingrich when he suggested, soon after the election, that Republicans in the House would take up a school prayer amendment after acting on the agenda outlined in the Contract With America. Most insisted the proposal was a major political blunder. But then most of them had previously decried the contract itself as a major political blunder, sure to lose votes for Republican candidates. The school prayer amendment is an excellent idea, but ambitious ve...
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