...Senate on August 14, 1876 said, in part: "No state shall make any law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;...any office or public trust under any State. . . . No . . . appropriation or loan of credit shall be made to any religious or anti-religious sect. . . ....

...was rewritten by the Senate Judiciary Committee and, as debated in the Senate, it read as follows: No State shall make any law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; and no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification...

...President Grant's recommendation, introduced a resolution proposing a constitutional amendment that "[n]o state shall make any law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" The language is the same as that in the first amendment, except...

...and fellow Republican James G. Blaine introduced in Congress a constitutional amendment to that end: "No State shall make any law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; and no money raised by taxation in any state for the support...

...and fellow Republican James G. Elaine introduced in Congress a constitutional amendment to that end: "No State shall make any law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; and no money raised by taxation in any state for the support...

...Representat1ve James G. Blaine proposed a constitutional amendment which, among other things, provided that "No state shall make any law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." 8ome scholars have argued that this amendment, which passed...

...Amendment to state and local government actions with a long series of very specific added restrictions. No State shall make any law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; and no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification...

...aims of the common school movement into the Constitution. As introduced by Elaine, the amendment read: No state shall make any law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; and no money raised by taxation in any State for the support...

...434-35 (January 1876). 124. Green, "Elaine Amendment" 67-68. The text of the Elaine Amendment provided: No State shall make any law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; and no money raised by taxation in any State for the support...

...Maine Senator James Blaine, introduced the amendment in 1875. The so-called Blaine Amendment provided: [n]o State shall make any law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; and no money raised by taxation in any State for the support...