A new constitutional amendment aimed at permitting the recitation of prayers in public schools or other public buildings, was introduced into the Senate yesterday by Sen. Everett M. Dirksen, Illinois Republican. A different version of a school prayer amendment also introduced by Sen. Dirksen was rejected by the Senate last year.
The new amendment provides that nothing in the Constitution “shall abridge the right of persons lawfully assembled, in any public building which is supported in whole or in part through the expenditure of public funds, to participate in non-denominational prayer.”
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