Doremus v. Board of Ed. of Hawthorne

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1952-03-31

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Me. Justice Jackson delivered the opinion of the Court. This action for a declaratory judgment on a question of federal constitutional law was prosecuted in the state courts of New Jersey. It sought to declare invalid a statute of that State which provides for the reading, without comment, of five verses of the Old Testament at the Opening of each public-school day. N. J. Rev. Stat., 1937, 18:14-77. No issue wa…

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