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Public Schools required an exercise read from the Bible at the beginning of the school day.
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Permitting under Pennsylvania law
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Children were not permitted to participate in the religious exercise themselves and therefore this didn't violate the First Amendment.
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The state's highest court ruled upheld that the exercise did not violate the individual rights of the students.
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The Supreme Court was now trying to answer whether this law was protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments.
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The Supreme Court was trying to answer whether the law was protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments.
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The public school was sponsoring the religious exercise in a setting that students were required to attend.
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The majority of the Court ruled that public schools cannot sponsor Bible readings under the First Amendment's Establishment Clause.
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The Free Exercise Clause values the individual rights of religion, and a person has the right to freely choose their own religious beliefs.
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There exercises, being prescribed as a part of the curricular activities, is in violation of the Establishment Clause.
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Given a majority 8-1 vote, Mr. Justice Steward dissented and expressed the view that the Establishment Clause had not necessarily been violated in this situation.
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