Number: 94-821
Title: Legislative Prayer and School Prayer: The Constitutional Difference
Authors: David A. Ackerman, American Law Division 
Abstract: The Supreme Court's decisions holding government-sponsored prayer in the public schools to violate the First Amendment's establishment clause but prayer in legislative assemblies to be constitutional are sometimes lifted up as contradictory. This report summarizes the relevant decisions and identifies the distinctions the Court has drawn between the two situations.
Pages: 5
Date: Updated October 26, 1994