49a5d8d9_n_and_education__1899_to_1970___Holding_Rationale
[Date] 1968 [Case] Flast v. Cohen, 392 U.S. 83 - Seven taxpayers brought suit to enjoin the Secretary of HEW from spending funds to provide services and textbooks to religious schools. [Issue Raised] Do taxpayers have standing to file a suit challenging the constitutionality of a federal statute on the ground that it violates the Establishment and the Free Exercise Clauses of the First Amendment. [S/P/N] S [Holding/Rationale] 
The Court held that the taxpayers had standing to sue. "Our history vividly illustrates that one of the specific evils feared by those who drafted the Establishment Clause ... was that the taxing and spending power would be used to favor one religion over another or to support religion in general."
Important Establishment Clause cases dealing with religion and education: 1899 to 1970.
Holding/Rationale