Obama urges Europeans, Americans to defeat terror

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By DAVID ESPO and DAVID RISING Cheered by an enormous international crowd, Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama on Thursday summoned Europeans and Americans together to “defeat terror and dry up the well of extremism that supports it” as surely as they conquered communism a generation ago. Obama said he was speaking as a citizen, not…

Movement toward Neutrality in First Amendment Jurisprudence

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Prior to the mid-20th century, the U.S. Supreme Court considered very few cases involving the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. By the 1970s, the Court had interpreted the Clause to prohibit government aid to religious organizations deemed to be “pervasively sectarian,” meaning that groups with strong religious orientation were prohibited from participating in otherwise…