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A 10 page paper assessing the legality of faith-based initiatives as promoted by the Bush administration. The merits and dangers of government support for faith-based initiatives could be discussed for so long that no one is able to accomplish any good, and still without arriving at any common ground to which all could freely subscribe. The bottom line in considering whether public funding of faith-based initiatives is legal lies in the first phrase of the First Amendment, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” Because Congress is not seeking to establish any religion, there should be no difficulty in supplying funding for sectarian organizations achieving real results in social pursuits. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
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10 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSlawFaithBaInit.rtf
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The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States says in part, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." This is the anti-establishment
clause on which the idea of separation of church and state is based. The phrase "separation of church and state" is not found in the Constitution as is frequently
- and erroneously - believed. It has been said that if churches were to be active in the community, there would be little
if any need for government programs supporting social and welfare structures of the American people. Soup kitchens, community pantries, homeless shelters, child care services for single parents, even Habitat
for Humanity and many others all contribute to areas of life that the federal government seeks to address through formal programs and occasional grants.
In 2002, President Bush sought to mobilize faith-based groups beyond where most of them had been able to operate by offering them access to federal funds. Funding typically
is the limiting factor prohibiting faith-based groups from being able to achieve greater influence in their communities, and it was President Bushs purpose to encourage those groups to expand current
services and to establish new ones. The ultimate goal was to reduce the federal governments role as the provider of welfare-related goods and services at the individual level. Legal
Interpretations The First Amendment has been used to remove prayer in schools and to prohibit the display of cr?ches on public property at
Christmas time. Most recently, it was used to remove a monument containing the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20) from public view at the Alabama Supreme Court building (Judge suspended over
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