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Veni, Vidi, Vouchers — Why the battle for school vouchers isn’t over. By Avi Schick

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The Blaine amendments are named for James G. Blaine, a congressman and senator from Maine who, in the mid-1870s, unsuccessfully attempted to win passage of an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would have gone far beyond the First Amendment prohibitions regarding religion and banned all assistance to religious institutions. Blaine’s proposed amendment passed the House of Representatives with the required two-thirds supermajority but only received a majority?

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