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CONSTITUTION Acknowledgment of God
Preamble. To the end, that justice be established, public
order maintained, and liberty perpetuated; we, the People of the State of Indiana,
grateful to almighty God for the free exercise of the right to choose our own
form of government, do ordain this Constitution.
Article I,
section 1. We declare, that all people are created equal; that
they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights; that among
these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that all power is inherent
in the people; and that all free governments are, and of right ought to be, founded
on their authority, and instituted for their peace, safety, and well-being. For
the advancement of these ends, the people have, at all times, an indefeasible
right to alter and reform their government.
Religion
Clauses Article I, section 2. All people shall
be secured in the natural right to worship ALMIGHTY GOD, according to the dictates
of their own consciences.
Article I, section 3. No
law shall, in any case whatever, control the free exercise and enjoyment of religious
opinions, or interfere with the rights of conscience.
Article
I, section 4. No preference shall be given, by law, to any
creed, religious society, or mode of worship; and no person shall be compelled
to attend, erect, or support, any place of worship, or to maintain any ministry,
against his consent.
Article I, section 5. No
religious test shall be required, as a qualification for any office of trust or
profit.
Article I, section 6. No money
shall be drawn from the treasury, for the benefit of any religious or theological
institution.
Article I, section 7. No person
shall be rendered incompetent as a witness, in consequence of his opinions on
matters of religion.
Article I, section 8. The
mode of administering an oath or affirmation, shall be such as may be most consistent
with, and binding upon, the conscience of the person, to whom such oath or affirmation
may be administered.
Article XII, section 4. No
person, conscientiously opposed to bearing arms, shall be compelled to do so in
the militia.
Education Article VIII,
section 3. The principal of the Common School fund shall remain
a perpetual fund, which may be increased, but shall never be diminished; and the
income thereof shall be inviolably appropriated to the support of Common Schools,
and to no other purpose whatever.
Finance/Property Tax
Article X. section 1. (a) The General Assembly
shall provide, by law, for a uniform and equal rate of property assessment and
taxation and shall prescribe regulations to secure a just valuation for taxation
of all property, both real and personal. The General Assembly may exempt from
property taxation any property in any of the following classes: (1)
Property being used for municipal, educational, literary, scientific, religious
or charitable purposes . . . .
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