Legal

1. Our university is in full compliance with the U. S. Supreme Court's guidance for constitutional interpretation is to be based on text and historical practice.

2. Under this standard, state legislatures cannot regulate religious or moral education or free speech pursuant to the 1st Amendment.

3. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 defines moral education as religious education and has the same protection as religious practice and education.

4. Freedom of speech, religion, and education are not granted by the legislature; they preexist government. 

5. These rights prohibit legislatures from passing laws regulating speech, religion, or private education.

6. In the 2022 Bruen decision, the United States Supreme Court clarified this standard.

7. Constitutional interpretation is rooted in text and history.

8. When the Constitutional text plainly covers an individual's conduct, the conduct is presumptively protected, and the history of the conduct supports the presumption.

9. Therefore, freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of word usage, freedom of ideas, and freedom of education, as a logical extension of freedom of speech and religion, are also subject to the presumption of protection based on the historical treatment of education and the text itself.

10. Legislatures are therefore barred from regulating any form of private education.

11. 3,813 (67%) out of approximately 5,706 total colleges and universities in the U.S. were formed by private individuals, associations, and churches without legislative interference.  

14. This fact meets the U. S. Supreme Court's historical practice standard.

15. Freedom of higher education is a logical extension of Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Speech.

16. Freedom of education for private religious and secular education at the K-12 level has always been free of legislative interference.