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Monday, September 22, 2008
Ind. Law - Former U.S. Senator Birch Bayh to lecture in Bloomington on the importance of church and state separation
Former U.S. Senator Birch Bayh will return to his alma mater on Thursday, Sept. 25, to present a lecture on the importance of church and state separation.Bayh, JD'60, will give a public talk from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Moot Court Room at the Indiana University School of Law--Bloomington. His lecture is entitled "Separation of Church and State: As Important Today as in the 18th Century." * * *
During his tenure in the Senate, Bayh authored two Constitutional Amendments: the Twenty-fifth Amendment, relating to Presidential and Vice Presidential succession, and the Twenty-sixth Amendment, which lowered the legal voting age to 18. He was influential in the passage of Title IX, which gave women equal opportunities in both sports and academics at public institutions. * * *
Bayh served in the U.S. Senate from 1962 through 1980. During his Senate career, he served on the Judiciary Committee, the Appropriations Committee, and the Environment and Public Works Committee.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on September 22, 2008 12:50 PM
Posted to Indiana Law