 | University of the State of New York. Division of Archives and History - New York (State) - 1926 - 394 pages
...temporary, shall expire at the times limited for their duration respectively. That all such parts of the common law, and all such of the said statutes and...particular denomination of Christians or their ministers, or concern the allegiance heretofore yielded to, and the supremacy, sovereignty, government or prerogatives,... | |
 | Thomas J. Curry - History - 1987 - 289 pages
...of the state reflected past quarrels. It decreed that any parts of the common law and any statutes "as may be construed to establish or maintain any...denomination of Christians or their ministers . . . are abrogated and rejected." The first draft of the constitution had specified the Church of England by... | |
 | Richard W. Pointer - Religion - 1988 - 240 pages
...whose Anglican exclusivity dissenters had denied all along and continued to deny in the article itself: "That all such parts of the said common law, and all...particular denomination of Christians or their ministers . . . be, and they hereby are, abrogated and rejected."^ Likewise, the committee was united in rejecting... | |
 | Merrill D. Peterson, Robert C. Vaughan - History - 1988 - 392 pages
...Amendment was adopted. New York, for example, adopted a constitution that abrogated all laws "which may be construed to establish or maintain any particular denomination of Christians or their ministers" and guaranteed forever the "free exercise of religious profession and worship without discrimination... | |
 | Stephen L. Schechter - Business & Economics - 1990 - 478 pages
...the said acts as are temporary, shall expire at the times limited for their duration respectively. That all such parts of the said common law, and all...particular denomination of Christians, or their Ministers, or concern the allegiance heretofore yielded to, and the supremacy sovereignty, government or prerogatives,... | |
 | Leonard Williams Levy - Religion - 1995 - 708 pages
...excepting such alterations as the legislature might make, and excluding all parts of the common law "as may be construed to establish or maintain any particular denomination of Christians."4 Chief Justice Kent, writing for a unanimous court, rejected Wendell's arguments. Although... | |
 | Jacob Rader Marcus - History - 1996 - 668 pages
...Christian religion. IV. New York State Is the First State to Emancipate Jews, April 20, 1777 XXXV . . . That all such parts of the said common law, and all...particular denomination of Christians or their ministers, or concern the allegiance heretofore yielded to, and the supremacy, sovereignty, government, or prerogatives... | |
 | jeffrey s gurock - History - 1998 - 516 pages
...colony on the igth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy five"88] aforesaid, or parts thereof, as may be construed to...particular denomination of Christians or their ministers, ... or are repugnant to this constitution, be, and they hereby are, abrogated and rejected.8' Not content... | |
 | Bill Ong Hing - History - 2004 - 344 pages
...law of England" would continue to be the law of the state, any "such parts of the said common law ... as may be construed to establish or maintain any particular...denomination of Christians or their ministers . . . are abrogated and rejected."17 Anti-Catholicism persisted in some quarters after the American Revolution.... | |
 | George E. Connor, Christopher W. Hammons - Law - 2008 - 849 pages
...provided for liberty of conscience. It abrogated any part of the common and statutory law that could be "construed to establish or maintain any particular denomination of Christians or their ministers." It also included a conscientious-objector clause that allowed the legislature to exempt Quakers from... | |
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That all such parts of the said common law, and all such of the said statutes, and acts aforesaid, or parts thereof, as may be construed to establish or maintain any particular denomination of Christians or their ministers... 
