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CONSTITUTION Acknowledgment of God
Preamble. We the people of Maine, in order to establish
justice, insure tranquility, provide for our mutual defense, promote our common
welfare, and secure to ourselves and our posterity the blessings of liberty, acknowledging
with grateful hearts the goodness of the Sovereign Ruler of the Universe in affording
us an opportunity, so favorable to the design; and, imploring God's aid and direction
in its accomplishment, do agree to form ourselves into a free and independent
State, by the style and title of the State of Maine and do ordain and establish
the following Constitution for the government of the same.
Religion
Clauses Article I, section 3. All individuals
have a natural and unalienable right to worship Almighty God according to the
dictates of their own consciences, and no person shall be hurt, molested or restrained
in that person's liberty or estate for worshiping God in the manner and season
most agreeable to the dictates of that person's own conscience, nor for that person's
religious professions or sentiments, provided that that person does not disturb
the public peace, nor obstruct others in their religious worship; -- and all persons
demeaning themselves peaceably, as good members of the State, shall be equally
under the protection of the laws, and no subordination nor preference of any one
sect or denomination to another shall ever be established by law, nor shall any
religious test be required as a qualification for any office or trust, under this
State; and all religious societies in this State, whether incorporate or unincorporate,
shall at all times have the exclusive right of electing their public teachers,
and contracting with them for their support and maintenance.
Article
IX, section 1. Every person elected or appointed to either
of the places or offices provided in this Constitution, and every person elected,
appointed, or commissioned to any judicial, executive, military or other office
under this State, shall, before entering on the discharge of the duties of that
place or office, take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation: "I, _____
do swear, that I will support the Constitution of the United States and of this
State, so long as I shall continue a citizen thereof. So help me God." Alternative
affirmation. "I _____ do swear, that I will faithfully discharge, to the best
of my abilities, the duties incumbent on me as _____ according to the Constitution
and laws of the State. So help me God." Provided, that an affirmation in the above
forms may be substituted, when the person shall be conscientiously scrupulous
of taking and subscribing an oath.
Education None.
Finance/Property
Tax None.
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