school district of abington township v. schempp and murray v. curlett

Teachers ordered students to rise and recite the verses reverently and in unison, or, as in the Abington School District, students in a broadcasting class read the verses over a public-address system. But local school officials only bought the Protestant King James Version.

The law did not specify which version of the Bible should be used-for instance, it could be the Catholic Douay text or the Jewish version of the Old Testament. The Schempp case concerned a 1949 Pennsylvania law that forced public schools to start each day with a reading of ten Bible verses (24 Pa. The Schempp ruling involved two cases: its namesake and Murray v. This time, the majority went one step further, issuing the first concrete test for determining violations of the First Amendment's Establishment Clause. Schempp was in many ways a repeat of Engel: the religious practices with which it was concerned were nominally different, but the logic used to find them unconstitutional was the same. Engel had opened the floodgates Schempp ensured that a steady flow of anti-school prayer rulings would continue into the future. vitale, a state-authored prayer that was recited by public school students each morning (370 U.S. The decision came one year after the Court had struck down, in engel v. Supreme Court banned the Lord's Prayer and Bible reading in public schools in Abington School District v.

School district of abington township v. schempp and murray v. curlett