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CONSTITUTION Acknowledgment of God
Preamble. We, the people of the state of Minnesota,
grateful to God for our civil and religious liberty, and desiring to perpetuate
its blessings and secure the same to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and
establish this Constitution.
Religion Clauses Article
I, section 16. The enumeration of rights in this constitution
shall not deny or impair others retained by and inherent in the people. The right
of every man to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience shall
never be infringed; nor shall any man be compelled to attend, erect or support
any place of worship, or to maintain any religious or ecclesiastical ministry,
against his 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
establishment or mode of worship; but the liberty of conscience hereby secured
shall not be so construed as to excuse acts of licentiousness or justify practices
inconsistent with the peace or safety of the state, nor shall any money be drawn
from the treasury for the benefit of any religious societies or religious or theological
seminaries.
Article I, Section 17. No religious
test or amount of property shall be required as a qualification for any office
of public trust in the state. No religious test or amount of property shall be
required as a qualification of any voter at any election in this state; nor shall
any person be rendered incompetent to give evidence in any court of law or equity
in consequence of his opinion upon the subject of religion.
Education
Article XIII, section 2. In no case shall any
public money or property be appropriated or used for the support of schools wherein
the distinctive doctrines, creeds or tenets of any particular Christian or other
religious sect are promulgated or taught.
Finance/Property
Tax None.
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