tryingto decipher the "intentions" of the First Amendment's authors. The Founding Fathers "could not have fore- seen" the switch from "private, sectarian schools" to a public system cle- signed to educate most of the nation's youth. Nor could they have predicted "the new threats" posed today's "politically involved" evangelists.
Justices and legal scholars have always regarded the language of the First Amendment-which Thomas Jefferson said in 1802...