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Religious Liberty Sacralized: The Persistence of Christian Dissenting Tradition and the Cincinnati Bible War
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 November 2021
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In 1869, the Cincinnati school board ended a forty-year tradition of Bible reading in the schools in an attempt to encourage Catholics to use them, thus provoking national controversy and a lawsuit brought by pro-Bible advocates. Scholars regularly cite the Ohio Supreme Court decision in favor of the school board as a landmark in the legal separation of church and state. This article interrogates the meaning of the secularization of law by examining expressions of juristic, pedagogic, and popular consciousness in the multiple levels and spaces where individuals raised and resolved constitutional questions on education. Dissenting Christian tradition shaped the legal brief of Stanley Matthews, the school board's lead attorney. Matthews' sacralized the religious liberty guarantee found in the Ohio Constitution within a post-millennialist framework. Ohio Chief Justice John Welch hybridized Christian dissenting tradition with deistic rationalism in <u>Board of Education v. Minor, et al</u>, thus appealing to as broad a constituency as had the right to elect justices to the Ohio Supreme Court. The limited, technical ruling allowed for a metropole/periphery divide in educational practice, so that Bible reading and prayer in Ohio public schools continued well into the 20th century. Far from a landmark in secularization of the law, the Bible War case demonstrates the persistent power of religion to frame law, including the law of religious liberty.
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She is the author of The Republic According to John Marshall Harlan, Religion, Morality, and the Constitutional Order, and The Lost Art of Dress, and has published in Journal of Supreme Court History, U.S. Catholic Historian, Journal of American History, and Law and Social Inquiry. This article is part of a book project tracing the origins and impact of the Bible War. She is grateful for comments and suggestions on this project from the members of Notre Dame's Colloquium on Religion and History, especially John McGreevy, Thomas Tweed, and Mark Noll, the members of the Annual Law and Religion Roundtable at the Notre Dame Law School, especially Richard Garnett, Nelson Tebbe, and Paul Horwitz, the anonymous readers for Law and History Review, and Sarah Barringer Gordon, Barry Cushman, Hendrik Hartog, Stanley N. Katz, Daniel Ernst, Peter J. Thuesen, Christopher Hamlin, and John Soares. She also thanks the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, the University of Notre Dame, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Spencer Foundation for financial support, and Nan Card of the Hayes Presidential Library and Museums, Spiegel Grove, Fremont, Ohio and Diane Mallstrom at the Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County for archival help.
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137. See John B. Peaslee, Poetical and Prose Selections (Cincinnati: J. R. Mills & Co., 1878).
138. Joan Shelley Rubin, “Making Meaning: Analysis and Affect in the Study and Practice of Reading,” in Print in Motion: The Expansion of Publishing and Reading in the United States, ed. Carl F. Kaestle and Janice A. Radway (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009), 511–27, at 520.
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143. Quoted in “Ohio Governor Vetoes School Bible Bill,” New York Times, May 1, 1925, 3.
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149. Green, The Bible, the School and the Constitution, 110.
150. Hendrik Hartog, “Pigs and Positivism,” Wisconsin Law Review 1985 (1985): 889–936.
151. See Bruce J. Dierenfield, The Battle over School Prayer: How Engel v. Vitale Changed America (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2007), 2, table 1.1, 183, table 8.1.
152. Kevin M. Schulz, Tri-Faith America: How Catholics and Jews Held Postwar America to Its Protestant Promise (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 121; Winthrop S. Hudson, The Great Tradition of the American Churches (New York: Harper, 1953); and Ken I. Kersch, Conservatives and the Constitution: Imagining Constitutional Restoration in the Heyday of American Liberalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019).
153. See Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe, 530 U.S. 290 (2000).
154. Daniel L. Dreisbach and Mark David Hall, eds. Faith and the Founders of the American Republic (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), 4.
155. See Green, The Bible, the School, and the Constitution, 116, 123–124; and Brumberg, “The Cincinnati Bible War,” 26.