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Montana
AMENDMENT LANGUAGE
State Constitutional Provision
- Mont. Const. art. 10, § 6: "The legislature, counties, cities, towns, school districts, and public corporations shall not make any direct or indirect appropriation or payment from any public fund or monies, or any grant of lands or other property for any sectarian purpose or to aid any church, school, academy, seminary, college, university, or other literary or scientific institution, controlled in whole or in part by any church, sect, or denomination."
RELEVANT CASES
State Courts
- State ex rel. Chambers v. School Dist., 472 P.2d 1013 (MT 1970) (prohibiting school board from either making a levy for or expending funds for employment of teachers to teach secular subjects in parochial schools).
REPEAL EFFORTS
- See the Heritage Foundation website for a list of state contacts.
© 2003 The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty