"At every home varsity football game at Santa Fe High School and prior to the game, a student council chaplain delivered a prayer over the public address system. Two families, one Catholic
and one Mormon challenged the practice of the prayer prior to the football games. The district
court ordered modification to the policy to permit a nonsectarian and proselytizing prayer.
The District Court held that the school district's policy of student-led and or student-initiated
prayer before football games violated the Constitution. The court, in a 6-3 decision, held that
public speech authorized by public policy on government property and sponsored by school
related events is not properly characterized as private."
A. Identify the Constitutional clause that is common to both Santa Fe Independent School v
Doe and Engel v Vitale.
B. Based on the Constitutional clause identified in part A, explain why the facts of Santa Fe
Independent School v Doe led to a similar holding in Engel v Vitale.
C. Describe an action that members of the public who disagree with the holding in Santa Fe
Independent v Doe could take to limit its impact.