Colo v. Treasurer & Receiver General

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• upholding the state's practice of paying legislative chaplains in large part because of the practice's long history and tradition and because it did not present substantial \divisive political potential\
• upholding the state’s practice of paying legislative chaplains in large part because of the practice’s long history and tradition and because it did not present substantial “divisive political potential”
• upholding state payment of chaplain salaries under state and federal constitutions
• expenditure of public funds to provide for chaplains for the Legislature not violative of art. 46, § 2
• no impermissible entanglement where \[t]here is no evidence that the State has become embroiled in any difficult decisions about which religions are to be represented\
• no impermissible entanglement where “[t]here is no evidence that the State has become embroiled in any difficult decisions about which religions are to be represented”

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