1st Amendment

court

moment of silence

separation of church and state

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

jurist

Supreme Court Justice

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

lawyer

judge

politician

religion

Episcopal Church

scientific organization

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

American Philosophical Society

race / ethnicity

White American

Chancellor of the College of William & Mary

member of the State Senate of Arizona

is a thing whereby one does not count heads before enforcing.

(W)e do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.

is an institution that depends on making tough decisions in close cases for reasons that it explains well and that, in the past at least, have proven satisfactory to the public.

[Court] is an institution that depends on making tough decisions in close cases for reasons that it explains well and that, in the past at least, have proven satisfactory to the public.

A moment of silence is not inherently religious. Sandra Day O'Connor

is important --- Government endorsement of religion sends a message to nonadherents that they are outsiders, not full members of the political community, and an accompanying message to adherents that they are insiders, favored members of the political community.

[G]overnment endorsement . . . of religion . . . sends a message to nonadherents that they are outsiders, not full members of the political community, and an accompanying message to adherents that they are insiders, favored members of the political community.

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Sandra Day O'Connor