Completing the constitution: enforcement of the religion clauses against the states under the Fourteenth Amendment.

Journal of Church and State | June 22, 2000| | Copyright

Suppose the Alabama legislature, responding to the will of the majority, decided to make Christianity the official religion of the state. Suppose the Texas legislature voted to deny to Texans the right to criticize the government. What if Kentucky required anyone running for public office to profess a belief in the deity of Christ? Or what if Arizona outlawed the religion of Scientology within its borders? Suppose Mississippi passed a law requiting "separate but equal" public schools for whites and African Americans.

Of course any of these laws, presumably, would be ...

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