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WISCONSIN CONSTITUTION Acknowledgment of God Preamble.
We, the people of Wisconsin, grateful to Almighty God for our
freedom, in order to secure its blessings, form a more perfect government, insure
domestic tranquility and promote the general welfare, do establish this constitution.
Religion Clauses Article I, section 18.
The right of every person to worship Almighty God according
to the dictates of conscience shall never be infringed; nor shall any person be
compelled to attend, erect or support any place of worship, or to maintain any
ministry, without consent; nor shall any control of, or interference with, the
rights of conscience be permitted, or any preference be given by law to any religious
establishments or modes of worship; nor shall any money be drawn from the treasury
for the benefit of religious societies, or religious or theological seminaries.
Article I, section 19. No religious tests
shall ever be required as a qualification for any office of public trust under
the state, and no person shall be rendered incompetent to give evidence in any
court of law or equity in consequence of his opinions on the subject of religion.
Article I, section 23. Nothing in this
constitution shall prohibit the legislature from providing for the safety and
welfare of children by providing for the transportation of children to and from
any parochial or private school or institution of learning.
Article
I, section 24. Nothing in this constitution shall prohibit
the legislature from authorizing, by law, the use of public school buildings by
civic, religious or charitable organizations during nonschool hours upon payment
by the organization to the school district of reasonable compensation for such
use.
Education Article X, section 3.
The legislature shall provide by law for the establishment
of district schools, which shall be as nearly uniform as practicable; and such
schools shall be free and without charge for tuition to all children between the
ages of 4 and 20 years; and no sectarian instruction shall be allowed therein;
but the legislature by law may, for the purpose of religious instruction outside
the district schools, authorize the release of students during regular school
hours.
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