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As an eighth grader in a Long Island suburb in the 1950s, Daniel Roth didn’t want to recite a prayer with the rest of his class in public school. Growing up on a farm in Wisconsin in the 1960s, Vernon Yutzy saw no reason to protest when his parents followed Amish religious tradition and refused to send him to public school after eighth grade. Roth’s and Yutzy’s experiences as children led to two landmark First Amendment cases: Engel v. Vitale, in which the US Supreme Court found school-sponsored prayer in public schools to be unconstitutional, and Wisconsin v.