41.   Superior Court judges around the state, including several in the Bay Area, have disagreed about whether the change violates the constitutional separation of powers.

42.   That is the constitutional separation between the executive and judicial branches.

43.   That conviction was overturned and eventually led to a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that teaching creationism violated the constitutional separation of church and state.

44.   The appeals court said the university could not give money to the students without violating the constitutional separation between church and state.

45.   The American Civil Liberties Union challenged the display, saying it violated the constitutional separation of church and state.

46.   The Bible Week proclamations caused an uproar last fall that lasted weeks, with opponents saying they violated the constitutional separation of church and state.

47.   The Board of Education ruled that her actions violated the constitutional separation of church and state and fired her four days later.

48.   The courts have ruled that similar bills for the village, Kiryas Joel, violated the constitutional separation of church and state.

49.   The court concluded that leading students in prayer violated the constitutional separation of church and state.

50.   The court, ruling in a case from Santa Fe, Texas, said the pre-game prayers violated the constitutional separation of church and state.