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 Immediately challenged in the Superior Court, the school board's decision was revoked, in part, on the grounds that the readings were non-sectarian.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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... repealed . " Plaintiffs state that the entire rule quoted from is in the words following : " The opening exercises in every department shall commence by reading a portion of the Bible by or under the direction of the teacher , and ...
... repealed . " Plaintiffs state that the entire rule quoted from is in the words following : " The opening exercises in every department shall commence by reading a portion of the Bible by or under the direction of the teacher , and ...
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... repealed , but the same is yet in full force . Plaintiffs further say , that a large number of the text books used in said schools contain selections and passages from the Holy Bible , and from other books , and from writings which ...
... repealed , but the same is yet in full force . Plaintiffs further say , that a large number of the text books used in said schools contain selections and passages from the Holy Bible , and from other books , and from writings which ...
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... repealed by the general law passed March 14 , 1853 , still in force . It is not necessary that I should enumerate these laws , or consider their provisions in de- tail , with reference to the aspect in which I now desire to present them ...
... repealed by the general law passed March 14 , 1853 , still in force . It is not necessary that I should enumerate these laws , or consider their provisions in de- tail , with reference to the aspect in which I now desire to present them ...
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... repealed . " Here is an absolute , positive prohibition of all “ religious instruction , " and of the " reading of religious books , " " including the Holy Bible . " It requires some effort of the mental faculties to enable one to fully ...
... repealed . " Here is an absolute , positive prohibition of all “ religious instruction , " and of the " reading of religious books , " " including the Holy Bible . " It requires some effort of the mental faculties to enable one to fully ...
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... repealing all the old disabling acts , legalizing all modes of worship , releasing dis- senters from parish rates , and suspending their collection until the next session ; a suspension made perpetual in 1779 , and the more readily , as ...
... repealing all the old disabling acts , legalizing all modes of worship , releasing dis- senters from parish rates , and suspending their collection until the next session ; a suspension made perpetual in 1779 , and the more readily , as ...
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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...