Title: Religion, the courts, and public policy.
Authors: Drinan, Robert F.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Year: 1963
Subjects: Church and state United States; Religion in the public schools.; Church and education United States.; Religion in the public schools United States
Contents: Areas of church-state cooperation -- General background of church and state in America -- Friendly alliances between church and state -- Religion in public education -- The public school in American history -- Moral and spiritual values in tax-supported schools -- Protestant-Catholic-Jewish viewpoints on religion in public education -- Problems of religion in public education -- Four "conspiracies" and public education -- Released-time religious education -- Bible-reading in public schools -- Prayer in public schools -- The church-related school -- A name for the non-public school -- The juridical status of the church-related school -- The states' denial of aid to private schools -- Benefits to pupils in private schools -- Auxillary benefits to pupils in private schools -- Bus rides : the basic ambiguity of Everson -- Pupil-benefit theory, secular textbooks and shared-time -- Federal aid to education -- History of federal aid -- Federal aid in 1961 -- The administration's legal position -- Church-related colleges and the administration -- The Catholics' justification of their claim -- The case from American legal, constitutional and educational principles -- Sunday laws, Sabbatarians and the Constitution -- Background of Sunday's laws -- The Supreme Court's decisions -- Sunday laws and the state legislatures.