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handle is hein.amenin/aeiabyo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTlTUTE ALI FORMS Religion and the Constitution, the edited transcript of an .AE public policy forum, addresses the intensely debated relationship between church and state under the Constitution of the United States. Religion was a dominant factor in the thirteen colonies, which had been mainly settled by families fleeing religious persecution in Europe. Out of this background came the First Amendment to the Constitution, which declares, in part, that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion-the establishment clause-or prohibiting the free exercise thereof-the free exercise clause. Under these clauses, can government support religion as one way of helping to sustain a free society? Should the Constitution mandate a moment of silent or vocal prayer during the school day? Should student religious groups in public high schools have the same rights as secular student clubs to meet on school grounds? Should creationism be taught in science education? Should there be tuition tax credits for those families that choose to send a child to private school? These and other ques- tions are addressed by a distinguished panel, including: o Walter Berns, John M. Olin Distinguished Scholar in Constitu- tional and Legal Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, and the author of The First Amendment and the Future of American Democracy 4 Edd Doerr, executive director of Americans for Religious Liberty, and former editor of Church and State magazine * Henry J. Hyde, U,S. representative (Republican, Illinois), memn- ber of the House Judiciary Committee, and the Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of justice o Barry W. Lynn, legislative counsel in the Washington office of the American Civil Liberties Union, former legislative counsel in the Of-. fice for Church in Society, Uniited Church of Christ, and an ordained minister of the United Church of Christ, US $12.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-8447-2249-8 ISBN-10: 0-8447-2249-9 9 780844 72249811 11 , 20 0

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