Parental Rights and Responsibilities Act of 1995: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 1946 ... October 26, 1995U.S. Government Printing Office, 1997 - 189 páginas |
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501 NORTH WESTERN abuse and neglect Attorney believe Bennett bill burden CANADY chil child abuse Cite as 501 claim compelling interest compelling state interest compulsory education Congress Constitutional Law constitutional right corporal punishment Court of Appeals custody decisions defendants DeJonges direct the education direct the upbringing dren FARRIS Federal Government Fourteenth Amendment Free Exercise Clause fundamental right GUGGENHEIM hearing home school intrusion issue L.Ed Largent legislation ment Meyer MICHAEL PATRICK FLANAGAN Michigan Michigan Constitution National Newkirks NORTH WESTERN REPORTER parental liberty parental rights parents to direct parochial schools act Pierce Prepared statement private and parochial PRRA public schools RAFEL reasonable regulation religious beliefs religious freedom Responsibilities Act right to direct Rights and Responsibilities rights of parents Rutherford Institute S.CL S.Ct SCHROEDER Society of Sisters standard statute strict scrutiny supra Supreme Court teach teacher certification requirement tion U.S. Supreme Court violation WATT WOODHOUSE Yoder
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Página 99 - Under the doctrine of Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 US, 390, we think it entirely plain that the Act of 1922 unreasonably interferes with the liberty of parents and guardians to direct the upbringing and education of children under their control.
Página 52 - It is one of the happy incidents of the Federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory, and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.
Página 97 - ... fundamental theory of liberty upon which all governments in this Union repose excludes any general power of the state to standardize its children by forcing them to accept instruction from public teachers only. The child is not the mere creature of the state; those who nurture him and direct his destiny have the right, coupled with the high duty, to recognize and prepare him for additional obligations.
Página 76 - It is cardinal with us that the custody, care and nurture of the child reside first in the parents, whose primary function and freedom include preparation for obligations the state can neither supply nor hinder.
Página 113 - But freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.
Página 77 - Mclnnis in sustaining defendants' demurrers. The plaintiffs in Mclnnis challenged the Illinois school financing system, which is similar to California's, as a violation of the equal protection and due process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment because of the wide variations among districts in school expenditures per pupil.
Página 7 - Without doubt, it denotes not merely freedom from bodily restraint but also the right of the individual to contract, to engage in any of the common occupations of life, to acquire useful knowledge, to marry, establish a home and bring up children...
Página 76 - The private interests here, that of a man in the children he has sired and raised, undeniably warrants deference and, absent a powerful countervailing interest, protection.
Página 99 - Act under consideration would be destruction of appellees' primary schools, and perhaps all other private primary schools for normal children within the State of Oregon. These parties are engaged in a kind of undertaking not inherently harmful, but long regarded as useful and meritorious. Certainly there is nothing in the present records to indicate that they have failed to discharge their obligations to patrons, students or the State. And there are no peculiar circumstances or present emergencies...
Página 112 - the equal right of every citizen to the free exercise of his Religion according to the dictates of conscience" is held by the same tenure with all our other rights. If we recur to its origin, it is equally the gift of nature; if we weigh its importance, it cannot be less dear to us; if we consult the Declaration of those rights which pertain to the good people of Virginia, as the "basis and foundation of Government," it is enumerated with equal solemnity, or rather studied emphasis.