Engel+vs.+Vitale


 * Name: Zach Collins**
 * Date:**


 * Court Case: **


 * //What amendment did this case deal with and what does it say?//**


 * //This court case is under the 1st amendment of freedom of religion to prevent schools from engaging religious activity In the Establishment Clause by a public agency. Under the unconstitional action//**
 * //Was the wall separation.//**


 * //What is the background of the case? Summarize what happened!//**
 * //The U.S Senator McCarthy Claimed that all the communist agents in the government have to tell all students to recite the prayer of all students in the school under the 1st amendment.//**

**Name: Josh Harhut**
 * //What was the final decision of the Supreme Court and why did they decide this?//**
 * //The court ruled that requiring students to recite the prayer in the unconstitional The courts decision was not black pointed out antireligious carrying on any program of governmentally sponsors religious activity//**
 * Date: 11/15/11**

** Court Case: Engel vs Vitale 1962 **

**//What amendment did this case deal with and what does it say? This case delt with the 1st and 4th amendments.//**

**//What is the background of the case? Summarize what happened! After WW2 THE u.s. experienced the spread of communisim.//**

**//What was the final decision of the Supreme Court and why did they decide this? The final decsion of the supreme court was it saw rather only to affirm the seperation of church & state it is neither sacrilegious to say that each separate government in this country should stay out of buisness of writing & sanctioing .//**


 * Name: Brittany Karp **


 * Court Case: Engel vs. Vitale **


 * // What amendment did this case deal with and what does it say? //**


 * // The first and fourteenth amendment deal with this court case. The school districts ordering the particular prayers violates the first amendment wich comands congress cant make any laws respecting and establishment of religon. //**


 * // What is the background of the case? Summarize what happened! //**


 * // Public school districts put particular prayers in every classroom in the morning and made all the students pray along with the teacher. //**


 * // What was the final decision of the Supreme Court and why did they decide this? //**


 * // The final decision was to have them stop the prayer in the public schools in new York so they weren’t going against the laws or any amendments. //**

Jacob Smith:
 * //What amendment did this case deal with and what does it say?//**

The court case, Engel v. Vitale, deals with the 1st Amendment. This amendment deals with the freedoms of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.


 * //What is the background of the case? Summarize what happened!//**

Students at Hyde Park school were forced to say a prayer each morning. Their parents did not want them to say the prayer because it went against their own religious beliefs.


 * //What was the final decision of the Supreme Court and why did they decide this?//**

The Supreme Court decided that the prayer was unconstitutional and violated the first amendment.