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CONSTITUTION Acknowledgment of God
Preamble. To perpetuate the principles of free government,
insure justice to all, preserve peace, promote the interest and happiness of the
citizen and of the family, and transmit to posterity the enjoyment of liberty,
we the people of Georgia, relying upon the protection and guidance of Almighty
God, do ordain and establish this Constitution.
Religion
Clauses Article I, section 1, paragraph 3. Each
person has the natural and inalienable right to worship God, each according to
the dictates of that person's own conscience; and no human authority should, in
any case, control or interfere with such right of conscience.
Article
I, section 1, paragraph 4. No inhabitant of this state shall
be molested in person or property or be prohibited from holding any public office
or trust on account of religious opinions; but the right of freedom of religion
shall not be so construed as to excuse acts of licentiousness or justify practices
inconsistent with the peace and safety of the state.
Article
I, section 2, paragraph 7. No money shall ever be taken from
the public treasury, directly or indirectly, in aid of any church, sect, cult,
or religious denomination or of any sectarian institution.
Education None.
Finance/Property Tax Article VII, section 2, paragraph 4. Those
types of exemptions from ad valorem taxation provided for by law on June 30, 1983,
are hereby continued in effect as statutory law until otherwise provided for by
law. Any law which reduces or repeals exemptions granted to religious or burial
grounds or institutions of purely public charity must be approved by two-thirds
of the members elected to each branch of the General Assembly.
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