University President John Garvey published commentary on The Boston Pilot about the establishment clause in the First Amendment.
...So the First Amendment announced that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." It wasn't until halfway through the 20th century that this rule ("Congress shall make no law ... ") was applied to the states. Since then, we have struggled to define exactly what that means in the modern world. We have nothing remotely like the 18th-century establishments...
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