| Show RELIGIOUS pELIG IOus lous FREEDOM AMENDMENT I 1 the following is publish published e a in the index as the text of an amendment proposed as a substitute tuto tute for the prese arese present ut first amendment to the of the baited states and arg urged d by an earnest body of men in different parts parti of the coun fr y 1110 to secure freedom freedor A to all itil from reile rellE religious aus bo bondage adage 1 SECTION 1 neither congress any amy state shall make nuy any duy law respecting an establishment of religion or favoring any particular form of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or permitting in any degree a union of church and state granting oc any special cial elal privilege immunity or advantage t to 0 any sect or religious body or to any number of sects or rellious bodies or taxing the people of any state either directly or or indirectly nor for the support of any sect or religious body or of any number of sects or religious bodies or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition edition the government lovern ment for a redress redness ress of grievances EC 2 no religious test shall shail ever he be required as a a condition of suffrage or as a qualification to an any y office of public trust in any state no person shall ever in any state be deprived of any of his or her ts or I 1 or disqualified for the performance of any public or private duty or rendered incompetent to give evidence in any auy court of law or equity in consequence of any opinions he or she may hold on the subject afre ligion no person shall ever in any S state tate tato be required by law to contribute directly or indirectly to the support of any religious society or body of which he or she is not a va voluntary member iseck ISEC BECS BEC S 3 ted state nor any state territory munica municipality or any civil division of state or territory shall levy any tax or make any gift grant or appropriation P for the support or in aid ald id of any ell bli church religious lous ious sect or denomination or any school seminary or institution of learning in which the faith falth or 0 r doctrines of any ny religious order or sect shall shail be taught or inculcated or in which religious rel rei lolous practices shall be observed 5 or for the support or in aid of any religious charity or purpose of arn ary any y sect feed order or dp denomination nomination whatsoever SEC 4 Con congles cres gres shall shaft have power to enforce the various provisions liro Hs of this article by appropriate ap ate legislation |
