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/ "Stating the 'The Constitution guarantess that government may not coerce  \
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| anyone to support or participate in religious exercises,' the court held  |
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| the First Amendment is violated by including clerical members who offer   |
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| prayer as part of an official school graduation ceremony, even though     |
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| attendance was supposedly voluntary. The court concluding that attendance |
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| was in a real sense obligatory with the students indiced to conform."     |
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| [Lee v. Weisman (1992, U S) 120 L Ed 2d 467, 112 S Ct 2649, from          |
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| the 1996 pocket part for the book "Modern Constitutional Law,             |
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\ Vol. I: The Individual And The Government", by Chester J. Antieau]        /
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