Title: Re: Diplomatic relations, the Holy See, and the Establishment Clause
In 1986 in Americans United
for Separation of Church State v. Reagan, 786 F.2d
194, the 3rd Circuit dismissed a challenge for
lack of standing and as political question.
In 1948, Americans United for separation of Church and State(then known
as Protestants and other Americans United) argued that diplomatic
recognition of the Vatican ,proposed by President Truman was
unconstitutional.(L. Pfeffer describes the controversy in his book
Church State and
