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Date: 1968Board of Education v. Allen  

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  • This Supreme Court decision upheld a New York law allowing the loan of secular textbooks to all schoolchildren, including those in parochial schools. Justice Byron R. White wrote the 6-3 decision in Board of Education v. Allen , 392 U.S. 236 (1968), rejecting establishment and free exercise challenges based on the First Amendment. [Source: Encyclopedia of the First Amendment; Board of Education v. Allen]

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  • Date: 1968

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-SRMPQFNP-K

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