Responsible republicanism: educating for citizenship
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The right to education should be viewed in terms of the education needed for responsible citizenship. To be prepare students for citizenship, education should concentrate on cultural literacy, moral character and critical thinking. This analysis provides a basis for formulating a republican educational policy. Most Supreme Court cases on educational policy are consistent with this view, with the exception of Wisconsin v. Yoder and Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier. Furthermore, a school voucher system could help to promote republican education, if the plan included curriculum requirements along the suggested lines.
Publication Name: University of Chicago Law Review
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0041-9494
Year: 1995
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Paradox redux
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The US Supreme Court's decision in Lee v. Weisman held that public school graduation had a coercive effect on nonbelievers and amounted to government sponsorship of religion. The Court's coercion test perpetuates the inconsistencies in determining how the government is to comply with the Establishment and Free Exercise clauses simultaneously but neither advance nor inhibit religion. Any accommodation of religion to comply with free exercise could directly or indirectly force sponsorship of religion and thus be prohibited if governmental bodies deem it proper.
Publication Name: Supreme Court Review
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0081-9557
Year: 1992
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Religious accommodation under Title VII: the burdenless burden
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Accommodation of employees' religious practices under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 should be clarified and expanded by Congress. The federal judiciary's weak and unclear standards are inadequate to protect religious rights and do not uniformly protect employers from undue burdens. Employers need a test to help determine at what point financial outlays for accommodation objectively become undue burdens under the Act.
Publication Name: The Journal of Corporation Law
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0360-795X
Year: 1997
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