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CONSTITUTION Acknowledgment of God Preamble. We
the people of Montana grateful to God for the quiet beauty of our state, the grandeur
of our mountains, the vastness of our rolling plains, and desiring to improve
the quality of life, equality of opportunity and to secure the blessings of liberty
for this and future generations do ordain and establish this constitution.
Religion
Clauses Article II, section 5. The state shall
make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof. Education
Article X, section 6. (1)
The legislature, counties, cities, towns, school districts, and public corporations
shall not make any direct or indirect appropriation or payment from any public
fund or monies, or any grant of lands or other property for any sectarian purpose
or to aid any church, school, academy, seminary, college, university, or other
literary or scientific institution, controlled in whole or in part by any church,
sect, or denomination. (2) This section shall not apply to funds from federal
sources provided to the state for the express purpose of distribution to non-public
education.
Article X, section 7. No religious
or partisan test or qualification shall be required of any teacher or student
as a condition of admission into any public educational institution. Attendance
shall not be required at any religious service. No sectarian tenets shall be advocated
in any public educational institution of the state. No person shall be refused
admission to any public educational institution on account of sex, race, creed,
religion, political beliefs, or national origin.
Finance/Property
Tax
Article VII, section 5. (1) The legislature
may exempt from taxation: (a) Property of the United States,
the state, counties, cities, towns, school districts, municipal corporations,
and public libraries, but any private interest in such property may be taxed separately.
(b) Institutions of purely public charity, hospitals and places of burial
not used or held for private or corporate profit, places for actual religious
worship, and property used exclusively for educational purposes.
(c) Any other
classes of property.
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