Concept information
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law
legal specialisms
education law
litigation: prayer and religious activities in public schools
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social history of crime
courts, corrections, punishments
United States Supreme Court
Supreme Court cases
Preferred term
Edwards v. Aguillard
Definition
- At issue in Edwards v. Aguillard (1987) was whether a Louisiana statute titled “Balanced Treatment Creation-Science and Evolution-Science in Public School Institutions Act” was unconstitutional under the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits states from making laws respecting an establishment of religion. This “Creationism Act,” as it was called, was a mandate forbidding the teaching of the theory of evolution in public schools unless accompanied by the teaching of creation science.The legislative purpose of Louisiana's Creationism Act was to focus attention on certain areas of science instruction related to the creation of mankind. [Source: Encyclopedia of Education Law; Edwards v. Aguillard]
Belongs to group
Date
- 1987
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Edwards_v._Aguillard
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