Establishments of Religion

The First Amendment says that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. What does that mean? This episode give a brief historical overview before looking at some of the landmark mid-century cases about religion in public schools as an entry point into the Supreme Court's modern Establish Clause jurisprudence .

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The 1787 Project is the podcast version of the lectures for Professor Justin Dyer's socially-distanced class on the U.S. Constitution at the University of Missouri. Running from August 2020 - May 2021, the course is about how the U.S. Constitution of 1787 frames the way we organize our life together as a political community. Published twice a week, the episodes explore who gets to decide big questions of public policy and why, analyze the design of our national political institutions and the contested boundaries between them, and look at the structure of constitutional rights.