mitchell v helms cornell

Government provision of such paradigms of universally general welfare benefits as police and fire protection does not count as aid to religion. Although we have never adopted the position that any benefit that flows to a religious school is impermissible because it frees up resources for the school to engage in religious indoctrination, Hunt, supra, at 743, from our first decision holding it permissible to provide textbooks for religious schools we have repeatedly explained the unconstitutionality of aid that supplants an item of the school’s traditional expense. The Ninth Circuit purported to distinguish Meek and Wolman based on the percentage of schools receiving aid that were parochial (a large percentage in those cases and a moderate percentage in Walker), 46 F. 3d, at 1468, but that court undermined this distinction when it observed that Meek also upheld “the massive provision of textbooks to parochial schools.” 46 F. 3d, at 1468, n. 16. We have also indicated that the answer to the question of indoctrination will resolve the question whether a program of educational aid “subsidizes” religion, as our religion cases use that term. 527 U. S. 1002 (1999). No one, indeed, disputes the trial judge’s findings, based on a detailed record, that the Roman Catholic schools,21 which made up the majority of the private schools participating,22 were pervasively sectarian,23 that their common objective and mission was to engage in religious education,24 and that their teachers taught religiously,25 making them precisely the kind of primary and secondary religious schools that raise the most serious Establishment Clause concerns. Post, at 29–31 (opinion concurring in judgment). Under such circumstances, the aid is less likely to have the effect of advancing religion.” Ibid. It does not follow, however, that we should treat as constitutionally suspect any form of secular aid that might conceivably be diverted to a religious use. By the time of Allen, the problem of classifying the state benefit, as between aid to religion and general public service consistent with government neutrality, had led to the formulation of a “test” that required secular, primary intent and effect as necessary conditions of any permissible scheme. Even if we at one time used the term “neutrality” in a descriptive sense to refer to those aid programs characterized by the requisite equipoise between support of religion and antagonism to religion, Justice Souter’s discussion convincingly demonstrates that the evolution in the meaning of the term in our jurisprudence is cause to hesitate before equating the neutrality of recent decisions with the neutrality of old. to Pet. J. Government officials themselves admitted that there was no way to tell whether instructional materials had been diverted, id., at 118a, 139a, 144a–145a, and, as the plurality notes, the only screening mechanism in the library book scheme was a review of titles by a single government official, ante, at 35, n. 15; see App. And if this were not enough to prove that no aid in religious school aid is dead under the plurality’s First Amendment, the point is nailed down in the plurality’s attack on the legitimacy of considering a school’s pervasively sectarian character when judging whether aid to the school is likely to aid its religious mission. 14   Contrary to the plurality’s apparent belief, Lamb’s Chapel v. Center Moriches Union Free School Dist., 508 U. S. 384 (1993), sheds no light on the question of divertibility and school aid. Prior to 1994, Chapter 2 was codified at 20 U. S. C. §§2911–2976 (1988 ed.). This doctrine, born of bigotry, should be buried now. Id., at 154a–155a. Consideration of the amendment arose at a time of pervasive hostility to the Catholic Church and to Catholics in general, and it was an open secret that “sectarian” was code for “Catholic.” See generally Green, The Blaine Amendment Reconsidered, 36 Am. While the textbooks had a known and fixed secular content not readily divertible to religious teaching purposes, the adaptable materials did not.15 So, too, we explained the permissibility of busing on public routes to schools but not busing for field trips designed by religious authorities specifically because the latter trips were components of teaching in a pervasively religious school. 2d 660, 2000 U.S. Brief Fact Summary. for Blind, 474 U. S. 481, 487–488 (1986); id., at 493 (O’Connor, J., concurring in part and concurring in judgment); Mueller v. Allen, 463 U. S. 388, 397–399 (1983). Applying the two relevant Agostini criteria, we see no basis for concluding that Jefferson Parish’s Chapter 2 program “has the effect of advancing religion.” Agostini, supra, at 234. It also allocates aid based on the private choices of students and their parents as to which schools to attend. Argued December 1, 1999–Decided June 28, 2000. Indeed, unless we are to relieve respondents of their evidentiary burden and presume a violation of Chapter 2, we should assume that the school used its own equipment in the theology department and the Chapter 2 equipment elsewhere. 2011-04 14–17, with ante, at 36–37. Ante, at 21–22. 2d 876, 52 FEP Cases 855 (1990) Constitutional Law Keyed to Stone for Cert. It is meant to guarantee the right of individual conscience against compulsion, to protect the integrity of religion against the corrosion of secular support, and to preserve the unity of political society against the implied exclusion of the less favored and the antagonism of controversy over public support for religious causes. Post, at 45, n. 27. See post, at 28–30. (In Agostini, by contrast, monitors visited each classroom—unannounced—once a month, and the teachers received specific training in what activities were permitted. As Justice O’Connor explained in dissent in Aguilar: “It is curious indeed to base our interpretation of the Constitution on speculation as to the likelihood of a phenomenon which the parties may create merely by prosecuting a lawsuit.” 473 U. S., at 429. Respondents filed suit in December 1985, alleging, among other things, that Chapter 2, as applied in Jefferson Parish, violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the Federal Constitution. We viewed this arrangement, however, as no different from a government issuing a paycheck to one of its employees knowing that the employee would direct the funds to a religious institution. 1   Chapter 2 is now technically Subchapter VI of Chapter 70 of 20 U. S. C., where it was codified by the Improving America’s Schools Act of 1994, Pub. In Wolman, we stated that nominally describing aid as to students would not bar a court from finding that it actually provided a subsidy to a school, 433 U. S., at 250, but we did not establish that a program giving “direct” aid to schools was therefore permissible. For more information, please contact catherwood-dig@cornell.edu. Even when the disputed practice falls short of Everson’s paradigms, the breadth of evenhanded distribution is one pointer toward the law’s purpose, since on the face of it aid distributed generally and without a religious criterion is less likely to be meant to aid religion than a benefit going only to religious institutions or people. As a matter of principle, this low threshold is required to safeguard the values of the First Amendment. “A:  No.” App. See Gore v. Harris, 773 So. Respondents note that in Agostini we did not overrule that portion of Ball holding the Community Education program unconstitutional. Compare id., at 240 (“[T]he State provides both the schools and the school district with the means of ensuring that the minimum standards are met. In Meek and Wolman, we adhered to Allen, holding that the textbook lending programs at issue in each case did not violate the Establishment Clause. It was easy to select whatever instructional materials and library books the schools wanted, just as it was easy to employ computers for the support of the religious content of the curriculum infused with religious instruction. 122a. Of course, that principle is more easily stated than applied”); see also Committee for Public Ed. The Court began to employ “neutrality” in a sense different from equipoise, however, as it explicated the distinction between “religious” and “secular” benefits to religious schools, the latter being in some circumstances permissible. Although neutrality is important, see, e.g., Agostini, 521 U.S., at 228, 231—232, the Court has never held that a government-aid program passes constitutional muster solely because of the neutral criteria it employs as a basis for distributing aid. and Religious Liberty v. Regan, 444 U. S. 646, 657–659 (1980) (approving program providing religious school with “direct cash reimbursement” for expenses of standardized testing). Yet we have “   ‘not accepted the recurrent argument that all aid is forbidden because aid to one aspect of an institution frees it to spend its other resources on religious ends.’   ” Regan, 444 U. S., at 658 (quoting Hunt v. McNair, 413 U. S. 734, 743 (1973)). So long as the governmental aid is not itself “unsuitable for use in the public schools because of religious content,” Allen, supra, at 245, and eligibility for aid is determined in a constitutionally permissible manner, any use of that aid to indoctrinate cannot be attributed to the government and is thus not of constitutional concern. (b)  Whether governmental aid to religious schools results in religious indoctrination ultimately depends on whether any indoctrination that occurs could reasonably be attributed to governmental action. Moreover, if the mere ability of a teacher to devise a religious lesson involving the secular aid in question suffices to hold the provision of that aid unconstitutional, it is difficult to discern any limiting principle to the divertibility rule. The state educational agency (SEA) of each recipient State, in turn, must distribute the State’s Chapter 2 funds to local educational agencies (LEA’s) “according to the relative enrollments in public and private, nonprofit schools within the school districts of such agencies,” adjusted to take into account those LEA’s “which have the greatest numbers or percentages of children whose education imposes a higher than average cost per child.” §7312(a). for Cert. See post, at 27, 28–29 (opinion concurring in judgment). As even the dissent all but admits, see post, at 22 (opinion of Souter, J. A statewide review by the Louisiana SEA indicated that §7371(b) receives nearly universal compliance. Because the presumption adopted in Meek and Wolman respecting the use of instructional materials and equipment by religious-school teachers should be abandoned, there is no constitutional need for pervasive monitoring under the Chapter 2 program. As a principle of constitutional sufficiency, the manipulability of this rule is breathtaking. It is arguable, however, at least after Witters, that the principles of neutrality and private choice would be adequate to address those special risks, for it is hard to see the basis for deciding Witters differently simply if the State had sent the tuition check directly to whichever school Witters chose to attend. In our own history, the turmoil thus produced has led to a rejection of the idea that government should subsidize religious education, id., at 645–649 (opinion of Brennan, J.) 156a–158a. 12   It is true that we called the importance of the cash payment consideration into question in Committee for Public Ed. Subsequent cases continued the focus on the “generality” of the approved government services as an important characteristic. See Allen, supra, at 255–262 (Douglas, J., dissenting). See n. 17, supra. The first … Everson made this clear from the start: secret aid to religion by the government is also barred. Any criteria, moreover, must not only define the margins of the establishment prohibition, but must respect the succeeding Clause of the First Amendment guaranteeing religion’s free exercise. See Lemon, 403 U. S., at 617 (“We note that the dissenters in Allen seemed chiefly concerned with the pragmatic difficulties involved in ensuring the truly secular content of the textbooks” (emphasis added)). & Religious Liberty v. Nyquist, 413 U. S. 756, 782 (1973) (describing “neutral posture” toward religion); Roemer, supra, at 745–746 (opinion of Blackmun, J.) Thomas, J., announced the judgment of the Court and delivered an opinion, in which Rehnquist, C. J., and Scalia and Kennedy, JJ., joined. The divertibility thus inherent in the forms of Chapter 2 aid was enhanced by the structure of the program in Jefferson Parish. No Title I funds ever reach the coffers of religious schools, and Title I services may not be provided to religious schools on a school-wide basis.” 521 U. S., at 228–229 (citations omitted). Mitchell v. Helms Supreme Court of the United States: IN THE. And those 11 are a bare minimum. The cases on which Agostini relied for this rule, and Agostini itself, make clear the close relationship between this rule, incentives, and private choice. Id., at 783, n. 38 (citations omitted). Tilton, 403 U. S., at 686–689, and in which pupils are the least critical of the schools’ religious objectives, see Lemon, supra, at 616. ); Wolman, supra, at 237–238. 74 See Helms, 530 U.S. at 807–29. Accordingly, we hold that Chapter 2 is not a law respecting an establishment of religion. … But judicial concern about these possibilities cannot, standing alone, warrant striking down a statute as unconstitutional”). 145a. Moreover, regardless of whether the proportion of aid actually provided to religious schools is relevant, we have never questioned our holding in Meek that substantial aid to religious schools is prohibited. App. 5, 6 (citing Walz v. Tax Comm’n of City of New York, 397 U. S. 664 (1970)), and Witters involving scholarship money distributed to a university, not a primary or secondary school, see Tilton, 403 U. S., at 685–686, that was not significant enough as a whole to support that institution, Witters, 474 U. S., at 488. Ante, at 24, n. 9. “[R]eligious institutions need not be quarantined from public benefits that are neutrally available to all.” 426 U. S., at 746–747; see also id., at 746 (discussing buses in Everson and school books in Allen as examples of “neutrally available” aid). & Religious Liberty, 413 U. S. 472 (1973), Tilton v. Richardson, 403 U. S. 672 (1971), and Bowen. Justice Blackmun, writing in Roemer, first called such a “general” or evenhanded program “neutral,” in speaking of “facial neutrality” as a relevant consideration in determining whether there was an Establishment Clause violation. After Everson and Allen, the state of the law applying the Establishment Clause to public expenditures producing some benefit to religious schools was this: 1. §7372(c)(1). Private choice also helps guarantee neutrality by mitigating the preference for pre-existing recipients that is arguably inherent in any governmental aid program, see, e.g., Gilder, The Revitalization of Everything: The Law of the Microcosm, Harv. To put the point differently, if the government, seeking to further some legitimate secular purpose, offers aid on the same terms, without regard to religion, to all who adequately further that purpose, then it is fair to say that any aid going to a religious recipient only has the effect of furthering that secular purpose.” Ante, at 10 (citation omitted). 18 The coordinator of the Jefferson Parish LEA ordered the books recalled sometime in the summer or early fall of 1985, and it appears that the schools had complied with the recall order by the second week of December 1985. See, ante, at 34–36. of Human Resources of Ore. v. Smith, 494 U. S. 872, 887 (1990) (collecting cases). Our conclusion regarding Meek and Wolman should come as no surprise. It is not just that a majority today mistakes the significance of facts that have led to conclusions of unconstitutionality in earlier cases, though I believe the Court commits error in failing to recognize the divertibility of funds to the service of religious objectives. 73 Id. of Central School Dist. App. Dist. The plurality, however, misreads our precedent as focusing only on affirmatively religious content. 65a, 71a. Similarly, in Mitchell v. Helms (2000), the Solicitor General, representing the Secretary of Education as a nominal respondent, supported a local government policy that loaned federally subsidized educational materials to religious instructors, despite the First Amendment issue implicated by the case. Rather, neutrality has heretofore been only one of several factors the Court considers. Respondents’ last evidentiary challenge concerns the effectiveness of Chapter 2’s supplantation restriction in Jefferson Parish. There, we explained that because we had “abandoned the assumption that properly instructed public employees will fail to discharge their duties faithfully, we must also discard the assumption that pervasive monitoring of Title I teachers is required.” 521 U. S., at 234 (emphasis in original). 7—9. 22–25. Mitchell v. Helms, 530 U.S. 793 (2000), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that it was permissible for loans to be made to religious schools under Chapter 2 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981. Agostini relied primarily on Witters for this conclusion and made clear that private choice and neutrality would resolve the concerns formerly addressed by the rule in Ball. Although we left it open on remand for the District Court to reaffirm its prior finding, we took pains to emphasize the narrowness of the “pervasively sectarian” category, see id., at 620–621 (opinion of the Court), and two Members of the majority questioned whether this category was “well-founded,” id., at 624 (Kennedy, J., joined by Scalia, J., concurring). 77 See id. textbook loan program, which the plurality upholds, from the … instructional materials and equipment loan program, which the majority finds unconstitutional”). See id., at 206a–208a. See supra, at 10–12, 18–20. It thought such an approach required not only by the lack of coherence but also by Agostini’s admonition to lower courts to abide by any applicable holding of this Court even though that holding might seem inconsistent with our subsequent decisions, see Agostini, 521 U. S., at 237. Mitchell v. Helms, 530 U.S. 793 (2000), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that it was permissible for loans to be made to religious schools under Chapter 2 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981. Although “neutral” may have carried a hint of inaction when we indicated that the First Amendment “does not require the state to be [the] adversary” of religious believers, ibid., or to cut off general government services from religious organizations, Everson provided no explicit definition of the term or further indication of what the government was required to do or not do to be a “neutral” toward religion. Under … See post, at 37. Relying on Zobrest, we refused to presume that the public teachers would “   ‘inject religious content’   ” into their classes, 521 U. S., at 225, especially given certain safeguards that existed; we also saw no evidence that they had done so, id., at 226–227. 49 (Mar./Apr. See Agostini, supra, at 226–227 (“[N]o evidence has ever shown that any New York City Title I instructor teaching on parochial school premises attempted to inculcate religion in students”); Allen, supra, at 248 (“Nothing in this record supports the proposition that all textbooks, whether they deal with mathematics, physics, foreign languages, history, or literature, are used by the parochial schools to teach religion”). Emphasis on one sort of fact or another has varied depending on the perceived utility of the enquiry, but all that has been added is repeated explanation of relevant considerations, confirming that our predecessors were right in their prophecies that no simple test would emerge to allow easy application of the establishment principle. In contrast, when government aid supports a school’s religious mission only because of independent decisions made by numerous individuals to guide their secular aid to that school, “[n]o reasonable observer is likely to draw from the facts … an inference that the State itself is endorsing a religious practice or belief.” Witters, supra, at 493 (O’Connor, J., concurring in part and concurring in judgment). . Id., at 39–41. Id., at 235. of Ewing, 330 U. S. 1, 64, 65–66 (1947). Because the District Court’s holding that Chapter 2 has a secular purpose is not challenged, only Chapter 2’s effect need be considered. The nub of the plurality’s new position is this: “[I]f the government, seeking to further some legitimate secular purpose, offers aid on the same terms, without regard to religion, to all who adequately further that purpose, then it is fair to say that any aid going to a religious recipient only has the effect of furthering that secular purpose. See post, at 42 (quoting App. Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith 494 U.S. 872, 110 S. Ct. 1595, 108 L. Ed. To the extent Justice Souter believes several related Establishment Clause decisions require application of a divertibility rule in the context of this case, I respectfully disagree. Pp. of School Dist. 27 (1965 Act). Whether a program is labeled “direct” or “indirect” is a rather arbitrary choice that does not further the constitutional analysis. Second, we noted that the Court had “departed from the rule relied on in Ball that all government aid that directly assists the educational function of religious schools is invalid.” Agostini, supra, at 225. See ante, at 10–11, 14–15. 1, eludes elegant conceptualization simply because the prohibition applies to such distinct phenomena as state churches and aid to religious schools, and as applied to school aid has prompted challenges to programs ranging from construction subsidies to hearing aids to textbook loans. (c) Respondents’ contentions that Agostini is distinguishable and that Meek and Wolman are controlling here, must be rejected. 9—15. Compare Everson, 330 U. S., at 17 (noting wholly separate and secular nature of public bus fare to schools), with Wolman, 433 U. S., at 254 (“The field trips are an integral part of the educational experience, and where the teacher works within and for a sectarian institution, an unacceptable risk of fostering of religion is an inevitable byproduct” (citation omitted)). No. Profile der Personen mit dem Namen Michelle Helms auf Facebook ansehen. Quite clearly, then, we did not, as respondents do, think that the use of governmental aid to further religious indoctrination was synonymous with religious indoctrination by the government or that such use of aid created any improper incentives. Ante, at 26–27. Pp. Pp. (i) Respondents’ chief argument–that direct, nonincidental aid to religious schools is always impermissible–is inconsistent with this Court’s more recent cases. While respondents’ appeal was pending, this Court decided Agostini v. Felton, 521 U. S. 203, approving a program under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 that provided public employees to teach remedial classes at religious and other private schools. See Mueller, supra, at 399; Witters, supra, at 488. §§7312(a)–(b). This Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at Scholarship@Cornell Law: A Digital Repository. Pp. Section 1: Mitchell v. Helms . of Va., 515 U. S. 819, 868–874 (1995) (Souter, J., dissenting). of Grand Rapids v. Ball, 473 U. S. 373, 383 (1985) (quoting Meek), overruled in part by Agostini, 521 U. S., at 203; Board of Ed. Their assertion that the government must have a failsafe mechanism capable of detecting any instance of diversion was rejected in Agostini, supra, at 234. “[I]t does not seem appropriate to view any aid ultimately flowing to the Inland Empire School of the Bible as resulting from a state action sponsoring or subsidizing religion.” 474 U. S., at 487–488 (footnote, citations, and internal quotation marks omitted).6. 90a, 262a–278a, as well as library books and materials, id., at 56a, 126a, 280a–284a. Id., at 36–37. 330 U. S., at 15–16; id., at 25–26 (Jackson, J., dissenting); id., at 28–29, 31–32 (Rutledge, J., dissenting). 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