In responding to a petition from a group of New York City Roman Catholic laymen for public funds to support parochial schools in the 1840s, the Whig majority in the state legislature, in effect, said that:
a) No public funds had ever gone to religious groups in the past, and they saw no reason to change the policy
b) The New York Public School Society was not a religious organization
c) They would follow Whig Governor William Seward's openly anti-Catholic policies, regardless of how unjust these were
d) It was better to withhold public funds from both Catholics and Protestants, even if this meant creating a nonsectarian system of public schools
A.
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