In the case The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, high school biology teacher John Scopes was accused of teaching content that violated a Tennessee law called the Butler Act. The Butler Act was a Tennessee law that stopped public school teachers from teaching evolution. Scopes violated this law, but felt his right to free speech protected him.
What variety of law could Scopes use in his defense?
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Not until April 1967–42 years after the Butler Law was passed, and 12 years after Inherit the Wind, a play based on the Scopes Monkey Trial, became a Broadway hit–did the Tennessee Legislature repeal the anti-evolution law.
Since then, a series of court decisions has barred creationists’ efforts to have their beliefs taught in public schools. Yet 75 years after the Scopes trial, debate over evolution still continues to simmer as states and education boards struggle with the subject that pits science against religion.
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it would be the constitutional law
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