Constitutional Law
Jan. 20, 2001
Voucher Violation
For decades, the Supreme Court has struggled to delineate when aid to parochial schools is allowed and when it is impermissible.
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
Erwin's most recent book is "Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism." He is also the author of "Closing the Courthouse," (Yale University Press 2017).
One of the most important unresolved constitutional issues is whether school voucher programs that allow aid to be used for parochial schools violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. Although California voters on Nov. 7 defeated an initiative to create a voucher system, such progr...
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