Question ? SANTA FE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT V . DOE , 120 5. Ct . 2265 ( 2000 ) ( Shortened and simplified from original )* A Santa Fe High School student who occupied the school's elective office of student* council " chaplain " delivered a prayer over the public address system before each varsity Football game for the entire season . This practice , along with others , was challenged by other students in the lower court as a violation of the Establishment Clause of the First . Amendment . It has been appealed to this court , the United States Supreme Court .* ( 1 ) The Santa Fe Independent School District ( District ) is a political subdivision of the State of Texas , La government entity ] responsible for the education of more than 4 , 000 students in a small community in the southern part of the State . " [ T The district's high school students ... selected a student " to deliver the prayer at varsity football games . " ( 2) The first clause in the First . Amendment to the Federal Constitution* provides that " Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion , or prohibiting the free exercise thereof . " The Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution adopted after the Civil War , imposes those same limitations on the legislative power of the States and their political subdivisions such as the school district involved here . ( 3 ) These invocations are authorized by a government policy and take place a government property at government - sponsored school- related events .. Santa Fe's student election system Ensures that only those messages deemed "appropriate " under the District's policy may be delivered . Even if we regard every high school student's decision to attend a home football game as purely voluntary , we are* nevertheless persuaded that the delivery of a pregame prayer has the improper effect* coercing those present to participate in an act of religious worship . The constitutional command will not permit the District " to exact religious conformity from a student as the price " of joining her classmates at a varsity football game ... WKD1 . Constitutional . Prayer . Same passage as above . What is the value issue raised in the argument