In Wallace v. Jaffree the Supreme Court struck down an Alabama law that required one minute of silence for prayer or meditation in all public school classrooms because the
A) law violated the free exercise clause.
B) prayer constituted an excessive entanglement between government and religion.
C) prayer violated the sacred-secular doctrine of the Ninth Amendment.
D) law lacked any clearly secular purpose.
E) law violated principles of common law.
D
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