The Bible in the Public Schools: Arguments in the Case of John D. Minor Et Al. Versus the Board of Education of the City of Cincinnati Et Al. : Superior Court of Cincinnati : with the Opinions and Decision of the CourtThe Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2005 - 254 pages Minor, John, Plaintiff. The Bible in the Public Schools: Arguments in the Case Of John D. Minor et al. versus The Board Of Education of the City of Cincinnati et al.: Superior Court of Cincinnati. With The Opinions and Decision of the Court. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co. 1870. 420 pp. [With] The Board of Education of the City of Cincinnati v. John D. Minor Et. Al. 43 pp. Reprinted 2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-514-9. Hardcover. * In 1868 the school board of the City of Cincinnati ended the practice of reading passages of the King James Bible in classrooms. Immediately challenged in the Superior Court, the school board's decision was revoked, in part, on the grounds that the readings were non-sectarian. In a ringing dissent, Justice Alphonso Taft, the father of William Howard Taft, declared: "This great principle of equality in the enjoyment of religious liberty, and the faithful preservation of the rights of each individual conscience is important in itself, and is essential to religious peace and temporal prosperity, in any country under a free government. But in a city and State whose people have been drawn from the four quarters of the world, with a great diversity of inherited religious opinions, it is indispensable" (417). The Ohio Supreme Court overturned on appeal. The latter decision and Taft's dissent were cited favorably by the U.S. Supreme Court in Abbington v. Schempp. With a new appendix containing the decision of the Ohio Supreme Court. |
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... enforce- ment of the rule proposed by said Board of Education , and so passed as aforesaid , will exclude from said schools large numbers of valuable text books which have been recently purchased by parents or guardians for the use of ...
... enforce- ment of the rule proposed by said Board of Education , and so passed as aforesaid , will exclude from said schools large numbers of valuable text books which have been recently purchased by parents or guardians for the use of ...
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... enforce the same , to the great and irreparable injury of the plaintiffs and those for whom they sue , and of said schools and said city . Plaintiffs further allege , that the individuals who are named as defendants are , with the ...
... enforce the same , to the great and irreparable injury of the plaintiffs and those for whom they sue , and of said schools and said city . Plaintiffs further allege , that the individuals who are named as defendants are , with the ...
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... enforcing said resolutions , passed November I , 1869 , as above set forth , or either of them , and from authorizing ... enforce , or obey said resolutions , or either of them , or any of the prohibitions therein contained ; that upon ...
... enforcing said resolutions , passed November I , 1869 , as above set forth , or either of them , and from authorizing ... enforce , or obey said resolutions , or either of them , or any of the prohibitions therein contained ; that upon ...
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... enforce the equality of all our citizens , we may reasonably doubt whether the denial of the smallest civic right ... enforced with more or less severity , according to circumstances . Opinions and modes of worship differing from those ...
... enforce the equality of all our citizens , we may reasonably doubt whether the denial of the smallest civic right ... enforced with more or less severity , according to circumstances . Opinions and modes of worship differing from those ...
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... enforced ? I unhesitatingly declare that it is impossible ! In this connection , I call the attention of the Court to the resolutions of the School Board , that their full scope and effect may be observed : " Resolved , That religious ...
... enforced ? I unhesitatingly declare that it is impossible ! In this connection , I call the attention of the Court to the resolutions of the School Board , that their full scope and effect may be observed : " Resolved , That religious ...
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Page 152 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Page 281 - Jesus answered, My Kingdom is not of this world : if My Kingdom were of this world, then would My servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews : but now is My Kingdom not from hence.
Page 44 - GOD, and for the support and maintenance of public Protestant teachers of piety, religion and morality, in all cases where such provision shall not be made voluntarily.
Page 39 - Religion, morality and knowledge, however, being essential to good government, it shall be the duty of the General Assembly to pass suitable laws to protect every religious denomination in the peaceable enjoyment of its own mode of public worship, and to encourage schools and the means of instruction.
Page 285 - Go and show John again those things which ye do hear and see : The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the Gospel preached to them.
Page 39 - The general assembly shall make such provisions, by taxation or otherwise, as, with the income arising from the school trust fund, will secure a thorough and efficient system of common schools throughout the state ; but no religious or other sect, or sects, shall ever have any exclusive right to, or control of, any part of the school funds of this state.
Page 76 - In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity : All must be false that thwart this one great end, And all of God that bless mankind or mend. Man, like the generous vine, supported lives ; The strength he gains is from th
Page 170 - There goes many a ship to sea, with many hundred souls in one ship, whose weal and woe is common, and is a true picture of a commonwealth, or a human combination or society. It hath fallen out sometimes, that both papists and protestants, Jews and Turks, may be embarked in one ship; upon which supposal I affirm, that all the liberty of conscience, that ever I pleaded for, turns upon these two hinges— that none of the papists, protestants, Jews, or Turks, be forced to come to the ship's prayers...