THURSDAY CLASS

LEARNING TARGET: How do you apply a precedentcase to the same issue, but to a different fact situation


* controversial contemporary public policy issues: establishment clause versus freedom of religion and free speech

* case study in the clash between establishment clause and freedom of religion in schools (ABC news -- 15 minutes) -- JOURNAL PARAGRAPH: how would you decide the NBC DATELINE cases if you were a justice, and why?

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.



HOMEWORK: moot court arguments begin next Wednesday with Hibl v. Haddock and Justices Collander, Thompson, Reynolds, & Huebler