Misinformation about prayer in schools

Jim Maule MAULE.Prof.Law at LAW.VILL.EDU
Thu Jun 4 21:59:40 PDT 1998


Eugene Volokh <VOLOKH at LAW.UCLA.EDU> writes

>     Nonetheless, part of the problem is that it's hard to capture the
> law in a sentence -- something that the media needs to do, but also
> something that many laypeople will end up doing in their heads
> regardless of how nuanced the media description might be.

'Tis sad that "sapiens sapiens" can't get past a concept expressed in
one sentence, but, that being the case in the land of 3-second sound
bites, the words "usually" "most" "certain" "some" and similar words
will help create the technically correct (but useless) sentence.

Jim Maule
Professor of Law
Villanova University School of Law
Villanova, PA 19085
maule at law.vill.edu
http://www.cilp.org/~maule
(610) 519 - 7135

"government big enough to give you everything you want is also big
enough to take away from you everything you have"
    -- George Herbert Walker Bush



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