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CONSTITUTION Acknowledgment of God None Religion
Clauses Article I, section 4. All persons have
a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates
of their own consciences. No person shall be compelled to attend, erect or support
any place of worship against his consent, and no preference shall be given by
law to any religious society, nor shall any interference with the rights of conscience
be permitted. No religious test shall be required as a qualification for office,
nor shall any person be incompetent to be a witness on account of his religious
beliefs; but nothing herein shall be construed to dispense with oaths and affirmations.
Religion, morality, and knowledge, however, being essential to good government,
it shall be the duty of the Legislature to pass suitable laws to protect every
religious denomination in the peaceable enjoyment of its own mode of public worship,
and to encourage schools and the means of instruction.
Education
Article VII, section 11. Notwithstanding any other provision
in the Constitution, appropriation of public funds shall not be made to any school
or institution of learning not owned or exclusively controlled by the state or
a political subdivision thereof; PROVIDED, that the Legislature may provide that
the state or any political subdivision thereof may contract with institutions
not wholly owned or controlled by the state or any political subdivision to provide
for educational or other services for the benefit of children under the age of
twenty-one years who are handicapped, as that term is from time to time defined
by the Legislature, if such services are nonsectarian in nature. All public schools
shall be free of sectarian instruction. The state shall not accept money or property
to be used for sectarian purposes; PROVIDED, that the Legislature may provide
that the state may receive money from the federal government and distribute it
in accordance with the terms of any such federal grants, but no public funds of
the state, any political subdivision, or any public corporation may be added thereto.
A religious test or qualification shall not be required of any teacher or student
for admission or continuance in any school or institution supported in whole or
in part by public funds or taxation.
Finance/Property
Tax Article VIII, section 2. (2) the Legislature
by general law may classify and exempt from taxation property owned by and used
exclusively for agricultural and horticultural societies and property owned and
used exclusively for educational, religious, charitable, or cemetery purposes,
when such property is not owned or used for financial gain or profit to either
the owner or user.
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