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Board of Education v. Allen  

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  • This Supreme Court decision upheld a New York law allowing the loan of secular textbooks to all schoolchildren, including those in parochial schools. Justice Byron R. White wrote the 6-3 decision in Board of Education v. Allen , 392 U.S. 236 (1968), rejecting establishment and free exercise challenges based on the First Amendment. [Source: Encyclopedia of the First Amendment; Board of Education v. Allen (1968)]

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  • 1968

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