Abstract
Abstract This chapter reviews the Supreme Court’s Establishment Clause cases involving religious ceremonies, arguments, expression, and symbols in public life and in the public square. It reviews the cases on legislative prayer and the public employment of legislative chaplains. It next surveys cases involving displays of religious symbols, such as a creche, cross, menorah, or the Ten Commandments, on public property. The chapter shows the role that history and tradition play in evaluating, and protecting, certain practices even if they involve religious symbols. The chapter concludes by providing a crisp assessment of patterns and principles to assist in making sense of religious symbols cases, which have at times seemed conflicting. Finally, the chapter provides a summary and conclusions on the Court’s establishment clause cases and thus ties together the previous two chapters (Chapters 9 and 10 with this one.
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