| New York (State). Commissioners on Practice and Pleadings - Civil procedure - 1850 - 898 pages
...That no person can be excluded, on account of religious belief, is settled by the constitution : " No person shall be rendered incompetent to be a witness...account of his opinions on matters of religious belief." — Article 1, section 3. § 1709. The following persons are not admissible : 1. Those who are of unsound... | |
| California. Constitutional Convention, John Ross Browne - California - 1850 - 534 pages
...: 4. The free exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and worship, without discrimination or preference, shall forever be allowed, in this State,...mankind ; and no person shall be rendered incompetent to bear witness on account of his opinions on matters of religious belief; but the liberty of conscience... | |
| California. Constitutional Convention, John Ross Browne - California - 1850 - 540 pages
...exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and worship, without discrimination or preference, shall be allowed in this State, to all mankind; and no person shall be rendered incompetent to bear witness on account of his opinions on matters of religious belief; but the liberty of conscience... | |
| Maryland. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1850 - 946 pages
...State, and that no person shall be be rendered incompetent to be a witness on account of his opinion on matters of religious belief, but the liberty of conscience hereby secured, shall not be construed as to excuse acts of licentiousness, or justify practices inconsistent with the peace or... | |
| Michigan - Constitutions - 1850 - 40 pages
...professional employment. No person shall be imprisoned for a mili* tia fine in time of peace. § 34. No person shall be rendered incompetent to be a witness on account of his opinions onmatteis of religious belief. § 35. The style of all process shall be: "In the name of the people... | |
| Indiana. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1851 - 1104 pages
...third section of the first article of the existing Constitution with the following amendment, viz : and no person shall be rendered incompetent to be...account of his opinions on matters of religious belief. And the question being taken on the adoption of the resolution. It was decided in the affirmative.... | |
| Michigan - 1851 - 434 pages
...employment. No person shall be imprisoned for a militia fine in time of peace. § 34- ^o Person skall De rendered incompetent to be a witness on account of his opinions on matters of religious belief. styte of pro- § 35. The style of all process shall be: "In the name of the peo""• pie of the State... | |
| Maryland. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1851 - 620 pages
...profession and wqfship without discrimination or preference shall ever be allowed in this State, and that no person shall be rendered incompetent to be a witness on account of his opinion on matters of religious belief, but the liberty of conscience hereby secured, shall Dot be... | |
| James Kent - Law - 1851 - 706 pages
...the consciences of witnesses, for it declares that " No person shall be rendered incompctent to he a witness on account of his opinions on matters of religious belief \ APPENDIX. CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. WE, the people of the United States, in order to form... | |
| A. S. Barnes - Constitutional history - 1852 - 674 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 the State of Michigan." ARTICLE... | |
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