Case Study: Lemon V. Kurtzman

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The legal case and ruling that support my choice of allowing the backpack program is Lemon v. Kurtzman. This ruling has to do with the Lemon Test standards, determining that a law must meet the following criteria to be legally valid regarding religion. First, the statute must have a secular purpose, second the statute's principle effect must neither advance nor hinder religion and third the statute must not foster excessive government entanglement with

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