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Establishment Clause Of The First Amendment

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- [ ] Chapter 2 of the education consolidation improvement act of 1981 does not violate Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. Chapter 2 of the education consolidation improvement act of 1981, says that all primary and secondary schools should be funded. Some of the private schools are religious so this includes all public, private, and religious schools. -[] Chapter 2 of the education consolidation improvement act of 1981 does not violate Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, because of neutral law. Neutral law means that you have an impartial unbiased system of law. It would be biased and partial to only give money to non religious schools, where as it would be impartial and unbiased to give to all schools no matter if it is

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