| Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 888 pages
...religious profession and worship, without discrimination or preference * * * in this State to all mankind." "The liberty of conscience hereby secured shall not be so construed as to excuse acts of licentiousness, or to justify practices inconsistent witli the peace or safety of this... | |
| Henry A. Gaston - Commercial law - 1880 - 336 pages
...forever be guaranteed in this State; and no person shall be rendered incompetent to be a witness or juror on account of his opinions on matters of religious belief; but the liberty of con science here by secured shall not be so construed as to excuse acts of licentiousness, or justify... | |
| California, California. Constitutional Convention - California - 1880 - 648 pages
...profession nrirl worship, without discrimination or preference, shall forever be allowed in this State; and no person shall be rendered incompetent to be a witness on accon nt of his opinions on matters of religious belief : but the liberty of conscience hereby secured... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Constitutional law - 1963 - 306 pages
...of no person shall be diminished or enlarged on account of his religious belief" (art. II, sec. 3). "No person shall be rendered incompetent to be a witness on account of his opinions of matters of religious belief" (art. II, sec. 17) . " * * * citizens of any religious denomination,... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor - 1964 - 648 pages
...profession and worship without discrimination or preference, shall forever be allowed in this state; and no person shall be rendered incompetent to be a witness on account of his opinions on matters of his religious belief; but the liberty of conscience hereby secured shall not be so construed as to... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare - 1965 - 1644 pages
...profession and worship, without discrimination or preference, shall forever be allowed in this state ; and no person shall be rendered incompetent to be a witness on account of his opinions on matters of his religious belief ; but the liberty of conscience hereby secured shall not be so construed as to... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1923 - 932 pages
...us, as we have said, intelligence and not belief is the true test. The constitutional guaranty that no person shall be rendered incompetent to be a witness...account of his opinions on matters of religious belief" would be violated if adults were held to have civil capacity to testify in a court of justice, though... | |
| 1900 - 580 pages
...§ 3. The free exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and worship, without discrimination or preference, shall forever be allowed in this State...on matters of religious belief ; but the liberty of consience hereby secured shall not be so construed as to excuse acts of licentiousness, or justify... | |
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