TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Introduction ............................................................... 1
Background ............................................................... 3
A.    History of Congressional Chaplaincies .............................. 3
B.    Plaintiffs Complaint ............................................ 7
Argument
I.     Stare Decisis Requires Dismissal of Plaintiffs Establishment Clause Claim
For Lack of Subject-Matter Jurisdiction ................................... 9
H.    Plaintiffs Article VI Claims Should Also Be Dismissed ..................... 16
A.    Plaintiff Lacks Standing to Raise Article VI Claims ................... 17
1. Plaintiffs Alleged Harm as a Taxpayer Is Insufficient to Establish
Standing to Raise Article VI Claims ............................ 18
2. Plaintiffs Allegations of Personal Reproach Fail to Meet the
Prerequisites for Article ffl Standing ............................ 23
3. Plaintiffs Alleged Employment Injury Does Not Provide Him
With Article ffl Standing ..................................... 25
B.    Plaintiffs Article VI Religious Test Claim Raises a Non-Justiciable
Political Question .............................................. 28
C.    Plaintiffs Challenge to the Selection of Congressional Chaplains
Is Barred by Legislative Immunity ................................. 31
D.    Plaintiffs Allegations of a Religious Test in Violation of Article VI
Fail To State a Claim ........................................... 34
E.    Plaintiffs Supremacy Clause Claim and His Claim That the Chaplains
Have Violated Their Oath of Office Are Devoid of Legal Merit.......... 40
Conclusion ............................................................... 43
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