POSC402 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - First Amendment To The United States Constitution, Supreme Court Of The United States, Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POSC402
• Professor: Wayne Batchis

Document Summary

Everson filed suit challenging the ability of board of education, to reimburse funds to parents of parochial school students for the transportation of their children to and from school. Issue: students in private schools were reimbursed for bus transportation. The state could pay the fares as part of a general program under which it pays the fares of the pupils attending public and other schools. A public school in new york made students voluntarily recite a prayer at the beginning of classes. Does making students voluntarily recite a prayer at the beginning of school violate the. Appellant - the direction for the content of the prayers were a good-faith attempt by the school to ensure that the sectarianism which is so often the flashpoint for religious animosity be removed from the graduation ceremony. Appellee - the prayer was an attempt to defuse a politically potent issue by taking it out of the hands of local communities.