Sentence examples for state book from inspiring English sources
-- Church, meet state: Tennessee's Legislature passes a bill to make the Bible its official state book.
It's rare for any state to designate an official state book.
Tennessee isn't the first state to consider naming the Bible an official state book.
Legal scholars consulted at the time said the establishment of a religious state book might be hard to challenge.
Two members of Mississippi's House of Representatives have proposed legislation to make it the state book there as well.
In contradiction to the Constitution, they are pressing for the Bible to be designated the State Book of Tennessee.
But they won't necessarily have the last word on what abortion restrictions ultimately end up on state books.
They found hundreds of state books and student records dating from the mid-1800's up to 1940.
Often, directors would travel to capture them in their pristine state – books are burned in the LCC's Alton Estate in François Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451, for instance.
The famous "Scopes Monkey Trial" of 1925 took place in nearby Dayton, TN, USA, and laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution remained on the state books for four decades thereafter.
California voters opted to keep capital punishment on the state books in a referendum in 2012.
