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CONSTITUTION Acknowledgment of God None
Religion Clauses Article I, section 2.
Perfect toleration of religious sentiment shall be secured,
and no inhabitant of the State shall ever be molested in person or property on
account of his or her mode of religious worship; and no religious test shall be
required for the exercise of civil or political rights. Polygamous or plural marriages
are forever prohibited.
Education Article
I, section 5. Provisions shall be made for the establishment
and maintenance of a system of public schools, which shall be open to all the
children of the state and free from sectarian control; and said schools shall
always be conducted in English: Provided, that nothing herein shall preclude the
teaching of other languages in said public schools.
Finance/Property
Tax Article II, section 5. No public money or
property shall ever be appropriated, applied, donated, or used, directly or indirectly,
for the use, benefit, or support of any sect, church, denomination, or system
of religion, or for the use, benefit, or support of any priest, preacher, minister,
or other religious teacher or dignitary, or sectarian institution as such.
Article
X, section 6. (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection
(b) of this section, all property used for free public libraries, free museums,
public cemeteries, property used exclusively for nonprofit schools and colleges,
and all property used exclusively for religious and charitable purposes, and all
property of the United States except property for which a federal agency obtains
title through foreclosure, voluntary or involuntary liquidation or bankruptcy
unless the taxation of such property is prohibited by federal law; all property
of this state, and of counties and of municipalities of this state; household
goods of the heads of families, tools, implements, and livestock employed in the
support of the family, not exceeding One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) in value, and
all growing crops, shall be exempt from taxation...
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