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The Court's majority holds that the Establishment Clause is no bar to Ohio's payment of tuition at private religious elementary and middle schools under a scheme that systematically provides tax money to support the schools' religious missions.

~David Souter

Topics: Bar Clause Court Elementary Establishment Holds Majority Middle Missions Money Ohio Payment Private Provides Religious Scheme Schools Support Systematically Tax Tuition

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The applicability of the Establishment Clause to public funding of benefits to religious schools was settled in Everson v. Board of Ed. of Ewing, which inaugurated the modern era of establishment doctrine.

~David Souter

Topics: Benefits Board Clause Doctrine Era Establishment Funding Modern Public Religious Schools Settled Which

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Legislatures not driven to desperation by the problems of public education may be able to see the threat in vouchers negotiable in sectarian schools.

~David Souter

Topics: Able Desperation Driven Education May Problems Public Public Education Schools Sectarian See Threat Vouchers

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When Congress exercises the powers delegated to it by the Constitution, it may impose affirmative obligations on executive and judicial officers of state and local governments as well as ordinary citizens.

~David Souter

Topics: Affirmative Citizens Congress Constitution Executive Exercises Governments Impose Judicial Local May Obligations Officers Ordinary Powers State Well

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The Brady Act was passed in response to what Congress described as an 'epidemic of gun violence.'

~David Souter

Topics: Act Brady Congress Epidemic Gun Passed Response Violence

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Every defendant knows, if endowed with the mental competence for criminal responsibility, that the life he will take by his homicidal behavior is that of a unique person, like himself, and that the person to be killed probably has close associates, 'survivors,' who will suffer harms and deprivations from the victim's death.

~David Souter

Topics: Associates Behavior Close Competence Criminal Death Endowed Every He Himself His Knows Life Like Mental Person Responsibility Suffer Survivors Take Unique Victim Who Will

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Judge

Born: September 17th, 1939

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