Americans United for Separation of Church & State v. School District

GEORGE CLIFTON EDWARDS, Jr., Chief Judge.

INTRODUCTION

The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States provides in its first clause: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, ...” The United States Supreme Court has established that this amendment applies with full force to the various states of the union. Committee for Public Education and Religious Liberty v. Regan, 444 U.S. 646, 100 S.Ct. 840, 63 L.Ed.2d 94 (1980); Everson v. Board of Education, 330 U.S. 1, 67 S.Ct. 504, 91 L.Ed. 711 (1947); Cantwell v.…