Government schools would be prohibited, as well as government churches, in
a new proposed constitutional amendment. Under the proposal, the First Amendment
of the United States Constitution should state: “Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion or education, or prohibiting the
free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of the speech, or of the
press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition
the Government for a redress of grievances. Nor suppressing such through
an establishment of religion or education.”
The separation of school and state is as important as the
separation of church and state. And for the same ideological reasons.
The government should not run Sunday school, nor Monday school through
Friday school.
When the U.S. Constitution was written, most people received
private educations, and government schools, if they existed at all, were
rare and did not predominate as they do today.
If the authors of the Constitution had foreseen the government’s
modern education monstrosity then the authors would have explicitly banned
government schools just as they banned government churches in the First Amendment. An attorney in Florida launched the amendment movement
after filing a motion in federal court to dismiss drug charges on the grounds
that defendants cannot receive fair trials in drug cases because jurors were
educated in government schools and cannot be impartial. The motion
argues that government schools are unconstitutional, and that the First Amendment
should be enlarged to prohibit educational as well as religious establishments.
The motion is available at http://rexcurry.net.
The motion in federal court argues that defendants do
not receive fair trials because government schools propagandize jurors to
do as the government says. More specifically, government schools tell
jurors to support vice laws against peaceful adults, and keep jurors ignorant
of jury nullification and the ways in which jurors can reject bad laws that
violate individual rights.
According to a recent web search, http://rexcurry.net
is the first and only website to argue that government schools are unconstitutional
and that the First Amendment should be enlarged to prohibit educational as
well as religious establishments. The web search looked for variations
on the phrase “establishment of religion or education.” A web search
also reveals that rexcurry.net originated the phrase “The separation of school
and state is as important as the separation of church and state.”
Rexcurry.net also advocates the alternative version: “Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of education or religion, or prohibiting the
free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of the speech, or of the
press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition
the Government for a redress of grievances. Nor suppressing such through
an establishment of education or religion.”
I did not originate "The government should not run Sunday school, nor Monday
school through Friday school." As least in the sense that
I stole it from my friend Marshal Fritz of the Alliance for the Separation
of School and State, who exposed me to "Having political government run 'Monday
School' is every bit as disastrous as having it run 'Sunday School.' "
So I tweaked it.
SEPARATE SCHOOL & STATE
According to a recent web search, http://rexcurry.net
is the first and only website to argue that government schools are unconstitutional
and that the First Amendment should be enlarged to prohibit educational as
well as religious establishments. The web search looked for variations
on the phrase “establishment of religion or education.” A web search
also reveals that rexcurry.net originated the phrase “The separation of school
and state is as important as the separation of church and state.”