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Resources and Endnotes for NCCJ Overview and Q&A:

Boles, Donald E., Bible, Religion and Public Schools, Iowa State University Press, 1963, [2nd ed].; reprinted, NY: Crowell-Collier, Collier Books  paper bound ed., 1963;  and 1965 [3rd ed.].

Bork, Robert H., "What to do about the First Amendment," Commentary (February, 1995): 23- 29. 

Cord, Robert L., Separation of church and state: Historical fact and current fiction, New York: Lambeth Press, 1982.

Curry, Thomas J., The First Freedoms: Church and state in America to the passage of the First Amendment, New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Laubach, John Herbert, School Prayer: Congress, the courts and the public,  Washington, Public Affairs Press, 1969.

Levy, Leonard, The Establishment Clause: Religion and the First Amendment, New York: Macmillian Publishing Company, 1986.

McMillan, Richard C., Religion in the Public Schools: An Introduction, Mercer University

Press, 1984.

Pfeffer, Leo, God, Caesar, and the Constitution: The Court as referee of church-state  confrontation, Boston: Beacon Press, 1974.

Richly, A James, Religion in American Public Life, Washington: Brookings, 1985.   

Sikorski, Robert, Prayer in Public Schools and the Constitution, 1961-1992, (3 vols.) New York, NY: Garland Publishing Co., 1993.  

Smith, Rodney K., Public Prayer and the Constitution, Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1987.

Stokes, Anson Phelps, Church and State in the United States, 3 vols. New York: Harper Brothers, 1950.

Whitehead, John W, and Wendel R. Bird, The Rights of Religious Persons in Public Education, Wheaton: Crossway Books, 1994.

Endnotes:

1. Smith, Tom W., 1996. A Survey of the Religious Right; Pew Center for the People and the Press. 1996. The  Diminishing Divide ... American Churches, American Politics. Both polls showed that an overwhelming majority of those polled were in support of a constitutional amendment to allow organized prayer in schools.

2. District of Abington Township vs. Schempp, 374 U.S. 203, 225 (1963).

3. "Religion in the Public School Curriculum: Questions and Answers" - A joint publication of The National Conference for Community and Justice and 15 educational and religious organizations.