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The Changing State of Church and State (with Noah Feldman)

Stay Tuned with Preet

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The Supreme Court's Overturning of the Establishment Clause

The Pledge of Allegiance didn't come until the 50s, and that's also when the US officially adopted in God we trust as our national motto. This was part of anti-communism. The question there is whether what you might call a purely symbolic expression of religion by the government counts as a violation of the Establishment Clause. And under Justice O'Connor's test, you could argue that the money doesn't make anybody feel genuinely like an outsider.

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