In his decision, Judge Davey wrote that the Florida Constitution was "clear and unambiguous" in prohibiting public money from being used in any sectarian institution.
"I think there are a number of students who would like to see Brandeis become a sectarian institution," she said in a 1989 interview with The New York Times.
The state constitution says: "No public money or property shall ever be appropriated, applied,donated, or used, directly or indirectly, for the use, benefit, or support of any sect, church, denomination, or system of religion, or for the use, benefit, or support of any priest, preacher, minister, or other religious teacher or dignitary, or sectarian institution as such".
A.D. White noted in his inaugural address, "We will labor to make this a Christian institution, a sectarian institution may it never be".
No revenue of the state or any political subdivision or agency thereof shall ever be taken from the public treasury directly or indirectly in aid of any church, sect, or religious denomination or in aid of any sectarian institution".
The Oklahoma constitution says that "no public money or property shall ever be appropriated, applied, donated, or used, directly or indirectly, for the use, benefit, or support of any sect, church, denomination, or system of religion, or for the use, benefit, or support of any priest, preacher, minister, or other religious teacher or dignitary, or sectarian institution as such".
In the 21st century, both secular and sectarian institutions are perpetuating the destruction.
The initiative, Amendment 8, would remove 19th-century language in the State Constitution that bars religious or sectarian institutions, or people, from receiving state money.
Although the program was enacted for ostensibly secular purposes,, we found that its "function" was "unmistakably to provide desired financial support for nonpublic, sectarian institutions".
Mr. Buckley said that Sister Elizabeth wished to lessen the role of religion in her college's curriculum in order that it might qualify for state aid, which is not granted to sectarian institutions, because of the Blaine Amendment.
The US-brokered deal won agreement from the country's wartime leaders to stop the killing in return for entrenching their positions in a state built on sectarian institutions and boundaries.
