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A SUMMARY of important State Laws relating to education enacted in 1922 and 1923 has been published by the United States Bureau of Education in Bulletin 1925, No. 2. In the year 1923, laws were passed in twenty-two States prescribing instruction in the public schools in the constitution of the United States, the duties of citizenship, or “Americanism,” which is defined (North Carolina) as including (a) respect for law and order, (b) character and ideals of the founders of the country, (c) duties of citizenship, (d) respect for the national anthem and the flag, (e) a standard of good government, (f) constitution of N. Carolina, (g) constitution of the United States. In Florida, teachers and professors in State institutions were forbidden to teach atheism or agnosticism or to teach as true Darwinism or any other hypothesis that links man in blood relationship to any other form of life.
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University and Educational Intelligence. Nature 116, 377 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116377a0
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