| Jonathan French - 1854 - 534 pages
...exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and worship, without discrimination or preference. •hall forever be allowed in this State to all mankind ;...practices inconsistent with the peace or safety of thij State. 4. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when, in cases... | |
| James Kent - Law - 1854 - 714 pages
...Ne*York, in 1846, seems to have set at liberty even the consciences of witnesses, for it declares that " No person shall be rendered incompetent to be a witness...account of his opinions on matters of religious belief." APPENDIX. CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. WK, the people of the United States, in order to form... | |
| Frank Soulé, John H. Gihon, Jim Nisbet - California - 1855 - 860 pages
...prolesslon and worship, without discrimination or preference, shall for ever be allowed in this State ; and no person shall be rendered incompetent to be...on matters of religious belief; but the liberty of con•clence, hereby secured, shall not be so construed as to excuse acts of licentiousness, or justify... | |
| Constitutions, State - 1855 - 576 pages
...any professional employment. No person shall be imprisoned for a militia fine in time of peace. . 34. No person shall be rendered incompetent to be a witness...account of his opinions on matters of religious belief. 35. The style of all process shall be, "In the name of the people of tho state of Michigan." ARTICLE... | |
| John Bouvier - Law - 1855 - 774 pages
...professional employment. No person shall be imprisoned for a militia fine in time of peace. 66. — § 34. No person shall be rendered incompetent to be a witness...account of his opinions on matters of religious belief. 67.— § 35. The style of all process shall be, " In the name of the people of the State of Michigan."... | |
| Thomas D'Arcy McGee - Catholics - 1855 - 360 pages
...in these words : " Provided that the liberty of conscience hereby granted shall not be so construed as to excuse acts of licentiousness, or justify practices inconsistent with the peace or safety of the state." t But a previous proviso, re* Dr. Spalding's Life of Bishop Flaget, p. 43, where Dillon's... | |
| Thomas Richard Whitney - Anti-Catholicism - 1856 - 384 pages
...worship, without discrimination or preference, shall for ever be allowed in this State to all mankind ; but the liberty of conscience hereby secured, shall...construed as to excuse acts of licentiousness, or justify practises inconsistent with the peace or safety of this State." Hence, anything, or any person or persons... | |
| Horatio Prater - Rationalism - 1856 - 250 pages
...continues Mr. H., " law take into * The revised constitution for New York for 1846, provides, " that no person shall be rendered incompetent to be a witness on account of his religious belief." (Combe, note, p. 81.) Thus perfect religious liberty is slowly but happily progressing,... | |
| Jonathan French - Newspapers - 1857 - 594 pages
...exercise and enjoyment of religions profession and worship, without discrimination or preference, shall forever be allowed in this State to all mankind ;...practices inconsistent with the peace or safety of thij State. 4. The privilege of the writ of habea• eorptu shall not be suspended, unless when, in... | |
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