| IDAHO
CONSTITUTION Acknowledgment of God
Preamble. We, the people of the state of Idaho, grateful
to Almighty God for our freedom, to secure its blessings and promote our common
welfare do establish this Constitution.
Religion Clauses
Article I, section 4. The exercise and enjoyment
of religious faith and worship shall forever be guaranteed; and no person shall
be denied any civil or political right, privilege, or capacity on account of his
religious opinions; but the liberty of conscience hereby secured shall not be
construed to dispense with oaths or affirmations, or excuse acts of licentiousness
or justify polygamous or other pernicious practices, inconsistent with morality
or the peace or safety of the state; nor to permit any person, organization, or
association to directly or indirectly aid or abet, counsel or advise any person
to commit the crime of bigamy or polygamy, or any other crime. No person shall
be required to attend or support any ministry or place of worship, religious sect
or denomination, or pay tithes against his consent; nor shall any preference be
given by law to any religious denomination or mode of worship. Bigamy and polygamy
are forever prohibited in the state, and the legislature shall provide by law
for the punishment of such crimes.
Article XIV, section 1.
All able-bodied male persons, residents of this state, between
the ages of eighteen and forty-five years, shall be enrolled in the militia, and
perform such military duty as may be required by law; but no person having conscientious
scruples against bearing arms, shall be compelled to perform such duty in time
of peace. Every person claiming such exemption from service, shall, in lieu thereof,
pay into the school fund of the county of which he may be a resident, an equivalent
in money, the amount and manner of payment to be fixed by law.
Education
Article IX, section 5. Neither the legislature
nor any county, city, town, township, school district, or other public corporation,
shall ever make any appropriation, or pay from any public fund or moneys whatever,
anything in aid of any church or sectarian or religious society, or for any sectarian
or religious purpose, or to help support or sustain any school, academy, seminary,
college, university or other literary or scientific institution, controlled by
any church, sectarian or religious denomination whatsoever; nor shall any grant
or donation of land, money or other personal property ever be made by the state,
or any such public corporation, to any church or for any sectarian or religious
purpose; provided, however, that a health facilities authority, as specifically
authorized and empowered by law, may finance or refinance any private, not for
profit, health facilities owned or operated by any church or sectarian religious
society, through loans, leases, or other transactions.
Article
IX, section 6. No religious test or qualification shall ever
be required of any person as a condition of admission into any public educational
institution of the state, either as teacher or student; and no teacher or student
of any such institution shall ever be required to attend or participate in any
religious service whatever. No sectarian or religious tenets or doctrines shall
ever be taught in the public schools, nor shall any distinction or classification
of pupils be made on account of race or color. No books, papers, tracts or documents
of a political, sectarian or denominational character shall be used or introduced
in any schools established under the provisions of this article, nor shall any
teacher or any district receive any of the public school moneys in which the schools
have not been taught in accordance with the provisions of this article.
Finance/Property
Tax Article VII, section 5. All taxes shall
be uniform upon the same class of subjects within the territorial limits, of the
authority levying the tax, and shall be levied and collected under general laws,
which shall prescribe such regulations as shall secure a just valuation for taxation
of all property, real and personal: provided, that the legislature may allow such
exemptions from taxation from time to time as shall seem necessary and just, and
all existing exemptions provided by the laws of the territory, shall continue
until changed by the legislature of the state: provided further, that duplicate
taxation of property for the same purpose during the same year, is hereby prohibited.
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