Article: Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe: mapping the future of student-led, student-initiated prayer in public schools.

I. INTRODUCTION

This note will discuss how, in Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe, (1) the Supreme Court, in deciding that a school district's policy of permitting state-endorsed student prayer violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, established a map by which student-led, student-initiated prayer may be allowed in public schools. Part II outlines the facts of the case, the particulars of the school district's policy, and the procedural history of the case in federal court. (2) Part III discusses the evolution of Establishment Clause jurisprudence and its relationship to the three tests used to determine whether a constitutional ...

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