3 Unsettled Questions Regarding the Constitutionality of Public Funding of Religious Schools
In 1875, Republican Rep. James G. Blaine (R–Maine), then speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, proposed a constitutional amendment to outlaw government aid to educational institutions with a religious affiliation. This idea was largely motivated by anti-immigrant bigotry and targeted Catholic schools serving large immigrant populations. That amendment never came to pass, but Blaine’s […]