Engel v. Vitale
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- Name of Case
- Engel v. Vitale
- Issue
- Issue: Does a public school requierment that students participate in a nondemoninational prayer violate the First Amerndment's Establishment Clause, as applied to states by the 14th Amerndment
- Plaintiff Argument
- Engel: Requiring students recite a school sponsored prayer violates the establishment clause of the 1st Amendment
- Defendent's Argument
- Majority Opinion
- No public school student should be required to recite a prayer at school. Government should not compose a prayer for any religion.
- Dissenting Opinion
- Because the prayer was not required to be recited it does not violate the establishment clause.
- Vitale: Since resitation of the prayer was not mandatory it did not violate the Establishment Clause of the 1st Amendment
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