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CONSTITUTION Acknowledgment of God Preamble. We,
the people of the State of Ohio, 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 7.
All men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty
God according to the dictates of their own conscience. No person shall be compelled
to attend, erect, or support any place of worship, or maintain any form of worship,
against his consent; and no preference shall be given, by law, to any religious
society; nor shall any interference with the rights of conscience be permitted.
No religious test shall be required, as a qualification for office, nor shall
any person be incompetent to be a witness on account of his religious belief;
but nothing herein shall be construed to dispense with oaths and affirmations.
Religion, morality, and knowledge, however, being essential to good government,
it shall be the duty of the General Assembly to pass suitable laws, to protect
every religious denomination in the peaceable enjoyment of its own mode of public
worship, and to encourage schools and the means of instruction.
Education
Article VI, section 1. The principal of all
funds, arising from the sale, or other disposition of lands, or other property,
granted or entrusted to this state for educational and religious purposes, shall
be used or disposed of in such manner as the General Assembly shall prescribe
by law. Article VI, section 2. The General Assembly shall make such provisions,
by taxation, or otherwise, as, with the income arising from the school trust fund,
will secure a thorough and efficient system of common schools throughout the state;
but no religious or other sect, or sects, shall ever have any exclusive right
to, or control of, any part of the school funds of this state.
Finance/Property
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