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X-WR-CALNAME:Dennis Wieboldt III: William Bentley Ball and the 'Century of 
 Struggle' for School Choice
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DESCRIPTION:Dennis Wieboldt III\nUniversity of Notre Dame\n\nWilliam Bentle
 y Ball was among the most important religious liberty litigators of the tw
 entieth century. Aside from arguing nine cases before the U.S. Supreme Cou
 rt\, including Wisconsin v. Yoder\, he represented religious individuals a
 nd institutions in dozens of state and federal courts across the nation. A
 nd yet\, his story has been almost entirely forgotten by historians and le
 gal scholars. This paper thus uncovers the profound influences on Ball as 
 a Catholic schoolboy in Cleveland\, Ohio\, during the early twentieth cent
 ury. In doing so\, it introduces a novel way of understanding the origins 
 of the school choice movement — a movement that\, along with others that
  staked claims on the Religion Clauses\, has an important place in the his
 tory of the twentieth-century Supreme Court. As Ball himself remarked afte
 r arguing his first case before the Justices in 1971\, the “fight” for
  school choice in Lemon v. Kurtzman “was the windup of years of work —
  a century of struggle.” To be sure\, Ball was not litigating for a cent
 ury before Lemon\, but the ideas that so decisively shaped his thinking ab
 out the constitutionality of public funding for private religious educatio
 n indeed emerged one hundred years before Ball first appeared behind the C
 ourt’s rostrum. Exploring the intellectual formation that Ball underwent
  long before Lemon thus promises to shed new light on the twentieth-centur
 y Court and yet another one of the legal campaigns that has figured so pro
 minently in its history.
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SUMMARY:Dennis Wieboldt III: William Bentley Ball and the 'Century of Strug
 gle' for School Choice
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 ey-ball-and-the-century-of-struggle-for-school-choice
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