That Amendment Requires The State To Be A Neutral In Its Relations With Groups Of Religious Believers And Nonbelievers; It Does Not Require The State To Be Their Adversary. State Power Is No More To Be Used So As To Handicap Religions Than It Is To Favor Them.

-Hugo Black

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That Amendment Requires The State To Be

Hugo Black

That Amendment Requires The State To Be A Neutral In Its Relations With Groups Of Religious Believers And Nonbelievers; It Does Not Require The State To Be Their Adversary. State Power Is No More To Be Used So As To Handicap Religions Than It Is To Favor Them.

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Religious

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Doe

It Is My Belief That There Are "absolutes" In Our Bill Of Rights, And That They Were Put There On Purpose By Men Who Knew What Words Meant And Meant Their Prohibitions To Be "absolutes."

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