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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... "
A Gazetteer of the States of Connecticut and Rhode-Island: Written with Care ... - Page 9
by John Chauncey Pease, John Milton Niles - 1819 - 389 pages
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Connecticut as a Colony and as a State: Or, One of the Original ..., Volume 3

Forrest Morgan, Samuel Hart, Jonathan Trumbull, Frank R. Holmes, Ellen Strong Bartlett - Connecticut - 1904 - 542 pages
...construed so as to justify practices inconsistent with the peace and safety of the State; and also that no preference shall be given by law to any Christian sect or mode of worship. Other provisions of the bil of rights protected the right of trial by jury and the wellunderstood common-law...
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Acts and Laws of the State of Connecticut

Connecticut - Session laws - 1905 - 402 pages
...indefeasible right to alter their form of government in such a manner as they may think expedient. SEC. 4. Xo preference shall be given by law to any Christian sect or mode of worship. SEC. 3. The exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and worship, without discrimination, shall...
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History of Saint Mark's Church, New Britain, Conn., and of Its Predecessor ...

James Shepard - 1907 - 796 pages
...profession and worship, without discrimination, shall forever be free to all persons in this state." That " No preference shall be given by law to any Christian sect or mode of worship", and that " no person shall, by law, be compelled to join or support, nor be classed with, or associated...
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History of East Haven

Sarah Eva Hughes - East Haven (Conn.) - 1908 - 396 pages
...persons as the supreme law of the state. The fourth section of the Declaration of rights decrees that no preference shall be given by law to any Christian sect, or mode of worship. Previous to this date, the Congregational churches were supported by a tax upon all property within...
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The Federal and State Constitutions: Colonial Charters, and Other ..., Volume 1

Francis Newton Thorpe - Charters - 1909 - 698 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...
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American State Papers Bearing on Sunday Legislation

William Addison Blakely, Willard Allen Colcord - Ecclesiastical law - 1911 - 808 pages
...licentiousness, or to justify practices inconsistent with the peace and safety of the State. SECTION 4. No preference shall be given by law to any Christian sect or mode of worship. ARTICLE VII. OF RELIGION. Provisions SECTION i. It being the duty of all men to worship the Supreme...
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American State Papers Bearing on Sunday Legislation

William Addison Blakely, Willard Allen Colcord - Ecclesiastical law - 1911 - 820 pages
...licentiousness, or to justify practices inconsistent with the peace and safety of the State. SECTION 4. Xo preference shall be given by law to any Christian sect or mode of worship. ARTICLE VII. OF RELIGION. Provisions SECTION I. It being the duty of all men to worship the Supreme...
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Beginnings of the American People, Volume 2

Carl Lotus Becker - United States - 1915 - 414 pages
...old charter, and dissolved the old union of Church and State by declaring that no preference should be given by law to any Christian sect or mode of worship. At the same time Connecticut extended the suffrage to all who served in the militia or paid a state...
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Connecticut in Transition, 1775-1818

Richard Joseph Purcell - Connecticut - 1918 - 498 pages
...justify practices inconsistent with the peace and safety of the State." The next section enacted that "no preference shall be given by law to any Christian sect or mode of worship." \ The term Christian had been substituted for reugious. While all religious forms consistent with morality...
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The State Constitutions and the Federal Constitution: And Organic Laws of ...

Charles Kettleborough - Constitutional law - 1918 - 1736 pages
...licentiousness, or to justify practices inconsistent ft the jience and safety of the State. SEC. 4. Xo preference shall be given by law to any Christian sect or mode worship. SEC. .">. Every citizen may freely «peak, write and publish his sentiments all subjects....
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