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CONSTITUTION Acknowledgment of God
Preamble. The People of Connecticut acknowledging with
gratitude, the good providence of God, in having permitted them to enjoy a free
government; do, in order more effectually to define, secure, and perpetuate the
liberties, rights and privileges which they have derived from their ancestors;
hereby, after a careful consideration and revision, ordain and establish the following
constitution and form of civil government.
Religion
Clauses Article I, section 3. The exercise and
enjoyment of religious profession and worship, without discrimination, shall forever
be free to all persons in the state; provided, that the right hereby declared
and established, shall not be so construed as to excuse acts of licentiousness,
or to justify practices inconsistent with the peace and safety of the state.
Article
I, section 20. No person shall be denied the equal protection
of the law nor be subjected to segregation or discrimination in the exercise or
enjoyment of his or her civil or political rights because of religion, race, color,
ancestry, national origin, sex or physical or mental disability.
Article
VI, section 7. The general assembly may provide by law for
voting in the choice of any officer to be elected or upon any question to be voted
on at an election by qualified voters of the state who are unable to appear at
the polling place on the day of election because of absence from the city or town
of which they are inhabitants or because of sickness or physical disability or
because the tenets of their religion forbid secular activity.
Article
VII. It being the right of all men to worship the Supreme Being,
the Great Creator and Preserver of the Universe, and to render that worship in
a mode consistent with the dictates of their consciences, no person shall by law
be compelled to join or support, nor be classed or associated with, any congregation,
church or religious association. No preference shall be given by law to any religious
society or denomination in the state. Each shall have and enjoy the same and equal
powers, rights and privileges, and may support and maintain the ministers or teachers
of its society or denomination, and may build and repair houses for public worship.
Article XI, section 1. Members of the general assembly, and
all officers, executive and judicial, shall, before they enter on the duties of
their respective offices, take the following oath or affirmation, to wit: You
do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that you will support the constitution
of the United States, and the constitution of the state of Connecticut, so long
as you continue a citizen thereof; and that you will faithfully discharge, according
to law, the duties of the office of...........to the best of your abilities. So
help you God.
Education
Article VIII, section 4. The fund, called the school fund,
shall remain a perpetual fund, the interest of which shall be inviolably appropriated
to the support and encouragement of the public schools throughout the state, and
for the equal benefit of all the people thereof. The value and amount of said
fund shall be ascertained in such manner as the general assembly may prescribe,
published, and recorded in the comptroller's office; and no law shall ever be
made, authorizing such fund to be diverted to any other use than the encouragement
and support of public schools, among the several school societies, as justice
and equity shall require.
Finance/Property Tax None.
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