* 1963 – The United States Supreme Court rules 8 to 1 in Abington School District v. Schempp against allowing the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer in public schools.

In the school prayer cases of the early 1960s, ( Engel v. Vitale and Abington School District v. Schempp ), aid seemed irrelevant ; the Court ruled on the basis that a legitimate action both served a secular purpose and did not primarily assist religion.

It created a general right to privacy ( Griswold v. Connecticut ), limited the role of religion in public school ( most prominently Engel v. Vitale and Abington School District v. Schempp ), incorporated most guarantees of the Bill of Rights against the States — prominently Mapp v. Ohio ( the exclusionary rule ) and Gideon v. Wainwright ( right to appointed counsel ),— and required that criminal suspects be apprised of all these rights by police ( Miranda v. Arizona ); At the same time, however, the Court limited defamation suits by public figures ( New York Times v. Sullivan ) and supplied the government with an unbroken run of antitrust victories.

* June 17 – Abington School District v. Schempp: The U. S. Supreme Court rules that state-mandated Bible reading in public schools is unconstitutional.

The latter half of the twentieth century witnessed a surge interest in politics by organized fundamentalists in the U. S. The sparks that ignited their interest were decisions by the United States Supreme Court in 1962 to prohibit state-sanctioned prayer in public schools in the case of Engel v. Vitale and in 1963 to prohibit mandatory Bible reading in public schools in the case of Abington School District v. Schempp.

* Abington Friends School, in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, United States

He attended Abington Senior High School until the tenth grade, and then transferred to Fork Union Military Academy.

The site of that school is now occupied a newer building, Waverly Elementary School, which serves Kindergarten through fourth grade and is part of the Abington Heights School District.

All middle school students residing in Waverly Township attend Abington Heights Middle School, and high school students attend Abington Heights High School.

Students residing in Glenburn attend schools in the top-ranked Abington Heights School District.

All middle school students attend Abington Heights Middle School and high school students at Abington Heights High School.

All students residing in North Abington attend schools in the Abington Heights School District.

Elementary students attend Waverly Elementary School, middle school students at Abington Heights Middle School, and high school students at Abington Heights High School.

The town is represented in the Massachusetts Senate as a part of the Norfolk and Plymouth District, which includes Abington, Holbrook, Quincy, and part of Braintree.

All students residing in South Abington attend schools in the top-ranked Abington Heights School District.

The Abington case began when Edward Schempp, a Unitarian Universalist and a resident of Abington Township, Pennsylvania, filed suit against the Abington School District in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to prohibit the enforcement of a Pennsylvania state law that required his children, specifically Ellory Schempp, to hear and sometimes read portions of the Bible as part of their public school education.

In two landmark decisions, Engel v. Vitale ( 1962 ) and Abington School District v. Schempp ( 1963 ), the US Supreme Court established what is now the current prohibition on state-sponsored prayer in schools.

* Abington School District v. Schempp ( 1963 )

After consolidation with Abington School District v. Schempp, the lawsuit reached the Supreme Court of the United States in 1963.

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Stewart believed that the majority on the Warren Court had adopted readings of the First Amendment Establishment Clause ( Engel v. Vitale ( 1962 ), Abington School District v. Schempp ( 1963 )), the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination ( Miranda v. Arizona ( 1966 )), and Fourteenth Amendment guarantee of Equal Protection with regard to voting rights ( Reynolds v. Sims ( 1964 )) went beyond the framers ' intention.

In recent times — especially beginning in the 1960s — some forms of majoritarianism have been countered by liberal reformers in many countries: in the 1963 case Abington School District v. Schempp, the United States Supreme Court declared that school-led prayer in the nation's public schools was unconstitutional, and since then many localities have sought to limit, or even prohibit, religious displays on public property.

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Frances " Fanny " Abington ( 1737 – 4 March 1815 ) was a British actress.

Women of fashion copied her clothing, and a headdress she wore was widely adopted and known as the Abington cap.

In 1826 the family moved to Abington, County Limerick, where Le Fanu's father Thomas took up his second rectorship in southern Ireland.

There were about six thousand Catholics in the parish of Abington, and only a few dozen members of the Church of Ireland.

The couple then travelled to his parents ' home in Abington for Christmas.

* March 4 – Frances Abington, English actress ( b. 1737 )

* date unknown – Frances Abington, English actress ( d. 1815 )

* Abington, Pennsylvania is settled.

Ellery Schempp ( born Ellory Schempp, August 1940 ) is an accomplished physicist and is also famous for being the primary student involved in the landmark 1963 United States Supreme Court case of Abington School District v. Schempp which declared that required public-school-sanctioned Bible readings were unconstitutional.

With the help of his father, Edward Schempp, and the American Civil Liberties Union, they sued the Abington School district over their policy of mandatory Bible readings.

In 2002, Dr. Schempp was elected to Abington Senior High School's hall of fame for his accomplishments in physics.

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The Court followed a broad interpretation of the Establishment Clause that had been standard for decades at the nation's highest court, a reaffirmation of the principles of such landmark cases as Engel v. Vitale, 370 U. S. 421 ( 1962 ) and Abington v. Schempp, 324 U. S. 203 ( 1963 ).

Just a few months later, Douglas had atheist Madalyn Murray as a guest, three days after the U. S. Supreme Court had ruled in her favor in the Abington School District v. Schempp case, which banned Bible reading in public schools.

In its 2009 list of America's Best High Schools, U. S. News & World Report awarded Abington Senior High School a bronze medal.

The Princess ( later Prince ) of Wales in Great Abington opened at the end of the 19th century and closed in about 1963.

In Abington Township v. Schempp ( 1963 ), the case involving the mandatory reading of the Lord's Prayer in class, the Supreme Court introduced the " secular purpose " and " primary effect " tests, which were to be used to determine compatibility with the establishment clause.

The Abington School District was involved in a legal case relating to prayer in school, Abington School District v. Schempp, which was heard in the United States Supreme Court on February 27 – 28, 1963.