They wrote another constitution in 1875, and the legislature passed the Blaine Amendment, prohibiting public money from being used to finance religious affiliated schools.

(Indeed, public schools continued to teach Bible studies and religious instruction for some years even in states which adopted Blaine Amendments.)

In 2012, a measure repealing the Blaine Amendment failed to win a simple majority in Florida.

In December 1875, he proposed a joint resolution that became known as the Blaine Amendment.

After 1875 many states passed constitutional provisions, called "Blaine Amendments", forbidding tax money be used to fund parochial schools.

If the Blaine Amendment prohibited vouchers, couldn't it also prohibit the state aid now going to hospitals, colleges and preschool programs run by religious institutions?

The judges ducked these inconvenient questions by ignoring the Blaine Amendment and using another rationale.

The Blaine Amendment bans state assistance to schools that have a religious affiliation.

In 1875, Grant supported the Blaine Amendment, having stated the church and state should remain "forever separate."

The proposed Blaine Amendment to the Constitution followed.