The issue in Dover was ESTABLISHMENT CLAUSE, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, it had very little to do with science.

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The federal lawsuit alleges that the U.S. government's takeover and financial bailout of AIG was in violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.

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That exception is triggered in a claim of a violation of the Establishment Clause and when there is a specific legislative grant for spending that implicates the First Amendment.

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Still, many argue that the Establishment Clause was intended to prohibit Congress from getting involved with religion and that the prohibition was only intended to apply to the federal government.

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The purpose of the establishment clause, they argue, is to ensure that state-sponsored gatherings (such as sporting events at public schools) do not endorse the viewpoint of one religious group at the expense of another.

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But the establishment clause in the constitution was intended to prevent the creation of an established church, on the model of the Church of England, not to prevent religious believers from expressing their beliefs in the public realm.

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It would be an unconstitutional "entanglement" problem (violating the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment) if a secular court had to get into the business of deciding what Jewish law or Catholic canon was and what it said about a given dispute.

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Labour former minister Kate Hoey, a supporter of Mr Bone's new clause, said the "establishment" parties "do not want the British people to have a say on whether to stay in or move out of the European Union".

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