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CONSTITUTION Acknowledgment of God None
Religion Clauses Article I, section 5. That
all men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according
to the dictates of their own consciences; that no human authority can control
or interfere with the rights of conscience; that no person shall, on account of
his religious persuasion or belief, be rendered ineligible to any public office
or trust or profit in this state, be disqualified from testifying or serving as
a juror, or be molested in his person or estate; but this section shall not be
construed to excuse acts of licentiousness, nor to justify practices inconsistent
with the good order, peace or safety of the state, or with the rights of others.
Article I, section 6. That no person can
be compelled to erect, support or attend any place or system of worship, or to
maintain or support any priest, minister, preacher or teacher of any sect, church,
creed or denomination of religion; but if any person shall voluntarily make a
contract for any such object, he shall be held to the performance of the same.
Article I, section 7. That no money shall
ever be taken from the public treasury, directly or indirectly, in aid of any
church, sect or denomination of religion, or in aid of any priest, preacher, minister
or teacher thereof, as such; and that no preference shall be given to nor any
discrimination made against any church, sect or creed of religion, or any form
of religious faith or worship.
Education Article
IX, section 8. Neither the general assembly, nor any county,
city, town, township, school district or other municipal corporation, shall ever
make an appropriation or pay from any public fund whatever, anything in aid of
any religious creed, church or sectarian purpose, or to help to support or sustain
any private or public school, academy, seminary, college, university, or other
institution of learning controlled by any religious creed, church or sectarian
denomination whatever; nor shall any grant or donation of personal property or
real estate ever be made by the state, or any county, city, town, or other municipal
corporation, for any religious creed, church, or sectarian purpose whatever.
Finance/Property
Tax Article X, section 6. All property, real
and personal, of the state, counties and other political subdivisions, and nonprofit
cemeteries, shall be exempt from taxation; all personal property held as industrial
inventories, including raw materials, work in progress and finished work on hand,
by manufacturers and refiners, and all personal property held as goods, wares,
merchandise, stock in trade or inventory for resale by distributors, wholesalers,
or retail merchants or establishments shall be exempt from taxation; and all property,
real and personal, not held for private or corporate profit and used exclusively
for religious worship, for schools and colleges, for purposes purely charitable,
or for agricultural and horticultural societies may be exempted from taxation
by general law. . . .
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