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| Edgerton Bible Case | |
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| Court | Wisconsin Supreme Court |
| Full case name | State ex rel. Weiss et al. v. District Board of School District No. 8 of the City of Edgerton |
| Decided | March 18, 1890 |
| Citation(s) | 76 Wis. 177, 44 N.W. 967 (W.I. 1890) |
| Transcript(s) | 76 Wis. 177 |
| Case history | |
| Appealed from | Circuit Court of Rock County |
| Related action(s) | Abington School District v. Schempp |
| Court membership | |
| Judges sitting | Orsamus Cole, William P. Lyon, David Taylor, Harlow S. Orton, John B. Cassoday |
| Case opinions | |
| Mandated reading of the King James Bible in Wisconsin public schools is an unconstitutional form of sectarian instruction. | |
| Decision by | Lyon |
| Concurrence | Orton and Cassoday |
| Concur/dissent | 5–0 |
| Dissent | None |
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State ex rel. Weiss et al. v. District Board of School District No. 8 of the City of Edgerton, 76 Wis. 177 (1890), colloquially referred to as the Edgerton Bible Case, was a Wisconsin Supreme Court case in which ...
Background[edit]
Public education in Wisconsin[edit]
Religion in Wisconsin[edit]
Bible reading in schools[edit]
By the time of the Edgerton case, similar legal challenges involving the use of the Bible in public schools had been made in states including Maine, Massachusetts, Ohio, and Iowa.[1] The first of these cases was Donahoe v. Richards, which was decided in the Maine Supreme Judicial Court in 1854. An Irish-American Catholic student had been expelled from her public school for refusing to participate in an exercise using the Protestant Bible.[2] The girl had offered to complete the exercise using the Douay translation instead, a request which was denied.[3]
- Donahoe v. Richards
- Spiller v. Inhabitants of Woburn
- Board of Education of Cincinnati v. Minor et al.
- Moore v. Monroe
Path to the Wisconsin Supreme Court[edit]
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Works cited[edit]
- John O. Geiger, The Edgerton Bible Case: Humphrey Desmond's Political Education of Wisconsin Catholics, 20 J. Church & St. 13 (1978).
- David M. Gold, State-Court Protection of Individual Rights: The Historians' Neglect, 225 Const. Comment. 419 (1985).
- Thomas C. Hunt, The Reformed Tradition, Bible Reading and Education in Wisconsin, 59 J. Presby. Hist. 73 (1981).
- Thomas C. Hunt, The Edgerton Bible Decision: The End of an Era, 67 Cath. Hist. Rev. 589 (1981).
- R. Laurence Moore, Bible Reading and Nonsectarian Schooling: The Failure of Religious Instruction in Nineteenth-Century Public Education, 86 J. Am. Hist. 1581 (2000).
- Michael deHaven Newsom, Common School Religion: Judicial Narratives in a Protestant Empire, 11 S. Cal. Interdisc. L.J. 219 (2002).
- State ex rel. Weiss et al. v. District Board of School District No. 8 of the City of Edgerton, 76 Wis. 177 (Wis. 1890).
- John R. Vile, Donahoe v. Richards (Maine Supreme Court) (1854), The First Amendment Encyclopedia (June 16, 2022).