Abington+School+District+vs.+Schempp

**What amendment did this case deal with and what does it say?**
 * Name: Alyssa Sweeney**
 * Date: November 8, 2011**


 * //This case deals with thefirst and fourteenth amendments. The first amendment says that you have the five freedoms, freedom of speech, religion, petition, press, and assemble. The fourteenth amendment is all about if you are born in a different country and you take a test to come in the united states then you are naturalized and a citizen of the U.S. //**

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


 * //A school district in Abington Township was making the children do a project and read out of the bible. The parents did not approve and told them to change it because they didn’t like it and the school said no. The parents brought them to court and the judge agreed with the parents and made them change it. The school cannot discuss the bible with the kids anymore. //**


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


 * //The decision was that the parents were right because the first amendment has the freedom of religion. With them reading that bible was trying to get them to pick that religion. The court made them change the bible reading every day. They could not do anything with a certain religion, with the kids. //**


 * Name: Ashley Hallisey**
 * Date: November 4,2011**


 * Court Case: Abington School District v. Schempp **


 * // What amendment did this case deal with and what does it say? //**
 * In this court case we are dealing with the first amendment and the fourteenth amendment. The First Amendment’s Establishment Clause (“Congress shall moke no law respecting an establishment of religion”) and interfered with its free Exercise Clause (“or prohibiting the free exercise [of religion]”). Local official’s immediately appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Also, this case deals with the Fourteenth amendment. It says ****persons born or naturalized ( **became full citizen**) in the United States shall enjoy full rights.**
 * // What is the background of the case? Summarize what happened! //**
 * The State law of Pennsylvania forced reading the bible each day at school for an activity. Parents objected and some even sued. When cases reached the Court the outcome of the case was that the Supreme Court said that “You cannot make a law that enforces individuals to read the bible” because it is violating the First Amendment. After all this the Court created a ruling that if the purpose and effect of a law //“is that advancement or inhibition of religion”// it //“exceeds the scope of legislative power.”// **


 * // What was the final decision of the Supreme Court and why did they decide this? //**
 * The Supreme Court’s decision after the case was over was that Abington District High School had to change their morning activities because it was violating the First and Fourteenth Amendment. This made it so that kids did not have to read the bible because that was the Courts final decision. The Court agreed with the parent and took the schools rights away for making students read part of the bible or some of the verses they took that right away. This Court case was decide on June 17, 1963 **


 * Name: Jordon Rafferty**
 * Date: November 9, 2011**


 * Court Case: **


 * // What amendment did this case deal with and what does it say? //**
 * //This court case deals with the first and fourteenth amendments. The first amemdment says you have five rights freedom of speech, religion,petition,press, and assemble. The fourteenth ammendment says if your not born in the united states you can take a test to become a citizen. //**


 * // What is the background of the case? Summarize what happened! //**
 * //There was a law that made the children read the bible everyday of school and the parents didn’t like that. Some of them even sued. The school kept apealing and it reached the supreme court. The court agreed with the pparents and the school cant discuss the bible with the kids anymore. //**


 * // at was the final decision of the Supreme Court and why did they decide this? //**
 * //The supreme court’s final decision was that Abington school district had to change the things they did in the morning. They had to change it because it was violating the 1st and 14th ammendment. //**