 | Connecticut - Connecticut - 1866 - 968 pages
...justify practices inconsistent with the peace and safety of the state. r^gi™"™0* '" SECT- 4- -^° preference shall be given by law to any Christian sect or mode of worship. SECT. 5. Every citizen may freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible... | |
 | New York (State) - Constitution - 1867 - 254 pages
...seminary, nor shall property belonging to the State be appropriated for any such purpose. Mich., 304. — No preference shall be given by law to any Christian sect or mode of worship. Ct., 107. — No preference shall ever be given by law to any religious sect, or mode of worship. Miss.,... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 854 pages
...instruction of every name and nature tolerated by the constitution, for that instrument declares that " no preference shall be given by law to any Christian sect or mode of worship." Hence it is obvious that the object which the supporters of this doctrine have in view would not be... | |
 | Benjamin Perley Poore - Constitutional law - 1877 - 1054 pages
...and it was adopted by the people October 5, 1818, receiving 13,918 votes against 12,361 votes. SEC. gainst transgressions upon the rights of the people, we declare that everything SEC. 5. Every citizen may freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible... | |
 | Public schools - 1878 - 710 pages
...4, Art. I.) the fourth, extends this policy to the legislative action of the State, as follows : " No preference shall be given by law to any Christian sect or mode of worship." Further on (§ i, Art. VII) it declares that " no person shall by law be compelled to join or support,... | |
 | New Haven City School District - Religion in the public schools - 1878 - 40 pages
...(§ 4, Art. I.) the fourth, extends this policy to the legislative action of the State, as follows: " No preference shall be given by law to any Christian sect or mode of worship." Further on (§ 1, Art. VII) it declares that " no person shall by law be compelled to join or support,... | |
 | Connecticut. Bureau of Labor Statistics - Connecticut - 1886 - 696 pages
...of licentiousness, or to justify practices inconsistent with the peace and safety of the State. SEC. 4. No preference shall be given by law to any Christian sect or mode of worship. SEC. 5. Every citizen may freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible... | |
 | Elias Benjamin Sanford - Connecticut - 1887 - 396 pages
...change was followed by the adoption of the present constitution in 1818. This constitution enacts that " no preference shall be given by law to any Christian sect, or mode of worship." Provision is made for the election and appointment of distinct legislative, executive, and judicial... | |
 | Daniel Dorchester - 1888 - 368 pages
...which would help the establishment of religion. The Constitution of Connecticut declares (Art. I, Sec. 4) : No preference shall be given by law to any Christian sect or mode of worship. But if school moneys are appropriated to distinctively Roman Catholic schools, teaching the peculiar... | |
 | College students' writings, American - 1890 - 588 pages
...But, he claims again, Yale is not a university in law. The state charter contains a section reading, " No preference shall be given by law to any Christian sect or mode of worship." " The existing government of Yale," says the writer, "is in violation of this fundamental law of the... | |
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... profession and worship, without discrimination, shall forever be free to all persons in this State; provided that the right hereby declared and established shall not be so construed as to excuse acts of licentiousness, or to justify practices inconsistent... 
