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Download full textBauer, Norman J. – 1995
This paper uses the ideas of William James and John Dewey to buttresses an opposition to any effort to amend the United States Constitution to encourage or compel elementary and secondary school students to recite daily an oral prayer. The first section is a selection of the views of Dewey and James. The second section utilizes these ideas to…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Religion, School Prayer, State Church Separation
Parachini, Allan; And Others – 1995
Placing the debate in the United States over amending the Constitution to permit state-sanctioned school prayer in global perspective, this report analyzes the results of a survey of the school prayer policies of 72 countries. The report concludes that the vast majority of the major countries of the world, including Western Europe, Central…
Descriptors: Civil Law, Civil Liberties, Comparative Analysis, Constitutional History
