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—the state constitution provided: "All schools maintained or supported wholly or in part by the public funds shall be forever free from sectarian control or influence No public money or property shall be appropriated for or applied to, any religious worship, exercise, or instruction, or the support of any religious establishment."

- in Religious Education and 6 similar citations

To give credit for the literary study of the Bible, pursued under sectarian agents is to give credit for sectarian teaching and influence contrary to the Constitution, Art. 9, Sec. 4.

- in Educational Research Monographs and 6 similar citations

Nor m^ y the Bible be used as a text book, because that is held to violate the constitutional provisions of religious liberty

- in The American Judiciary and Religious Liberty and 5 similar citations

It is therefore remarkable that the courts of a half dozen States found compulsory religious exercises in the public schools in violation of their respective state constitutions

- in Abington School Dist. v. Schempp, 1963 and 4 similar citations

—the court struck down a program giving high school students credits for Bible study outside the school.

- in Witters v. Commission for the Blind, 1989 and 3 similar citations

Various types of action have been held to violate the principle of the separation of Church and State.

- in The Cornell Law Quarterly and 4 similar citations

In Witters II, the Supreme Court noted that section 11 is both " `sweeping and comprehensive,'"making it inappropriate to apply Federal Establishment Clause analysis to section 11

- in Malyon v. Pierce County, 1995 and 3 similar citations

Historically, this Court has never shied away from finding unconstitutional state support for religious worship, exercise or instruction in public schools.

- in State ex rel. Gallwey v. Grimm, 2002 and 3 similar citations

—the court struck down a school board resolution giving high school credits for Bible study done outside of school, even though the course of study covered only the "historical, biographical, narrative and literary features of the Bible".[9]

- in Witters v. Commission for the Blind, 1989 and 2 similar citations

—because the expenditure of time by public school teachers to determine the number of credits to give students for independent religious instruction would constitute an appropriation of funds for religious instruction in violation of Article I, section 2 no matter how small the expenditure of time by the teachers or how slight, indirect, or consequential the benefit to religion.

- in Garnett v. Renton School Dist., 1991 and 2 similar citations