Hundreds of schools will have closed their doors and the local school boards will be hardpressed to find the means to pick up where our private schools leave off. But I emphasize it is not just a matter of dollars and cents we are fighting for here. but rather the American freedom of choice. those who feel that the only things standing between this country and tyranny is the Bill of Rights. are ignoring what I feel to be a major safeguard which. while not spelled out specifically in the Bill of Rights. runs throughout the whole Constitution and influenced the drafting of one section of the Constitution after another and that is a heavy bias on the part of the founding fathers for a healthy pluralism whether It be in the form of States. churches. or civic or social organizations and an abhorrence of a monolithic super state. The succeeding waves of immigrants with all their diverse cultures and ethnic backgrounds reinforced this original bias a hundred years later. The uniqueness of the American experiment has always been the ability of our institutions to function and to govern with a diversity of peoples and viewpoints and not at the expense of such diversity. To those who rush today to cheer the courts opinion as a blow for freedom and a reaffirmation of liberty I would caution that this may well have been accomplished at the cost of one of the most valued assets our society has possessed since its earliest days. namely its diversity.
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