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Prior to Everson, the establishment clause, like most of the provisions of the Bill of Rights, applied only to the national government as the First Amendment explicitly states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” Yet Everson involved a state law. Black addressed the issue of incorporation. In the first part of the majority opinion, Justice Hugo L. Court said First Amendment applied to the states Everson, a taxpayer, challenged this law as an impermissible expenditure under the establishment clause. New Jersey said school boards could reimburse parents for busing children to private schoolsĪ New Jersey statute gave school boards the authority to reimburse parents for the cost of busing their children to private schools, including Catholic and other parochial schools. The commonly used phrase “separation of church and state” is derived from the “wall” metaphor in this case the Court in turn borrowed it from Roger Williams and Thomas Jefferson. 1 (1947), the Supreme Court ruled as constitutional a New Jersey statute allocating taxpayer funds to bus children to religious schools - because it did not breach the “ wall of separation” between church and state - and held that the establishment clause of the First Amendment applied to state and local governments as well as to the federal government.ĭespite the Court’s narrow 5-4 decision, the mix of separationist reasoning and accommodationist outcome has made the case a popular precedent for liberals as well as conservatives. (AP Photo/Dirk Lammers, used with permission from the Associated Press) Board of Education (1947) upheld a New Jersey statute allocating taxpayer funds to bus children to religious schools - because it did not breach the “wall of separation” between church and state - and held that the establishment clause of the First Amendment applied to state and local governments as well as to the federal government. To find out if your ticket can be paid online, visit NJMCdirect. ***Please call 73 regarding any adjournment requests.***Ĭertain payable tickets can now be paid online. ***Īttending Municipal Court Remotely: What to Do and What to Expect ***NO Adjournment Requests will be handled via email.*** ***ALL Adjournment requests must be submitted 7 days prior to your court date***

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