Preamble
The People of Connecticut acknowledging with gratitude, the
good providence of God, in having permitted them to enjoy a free government; do,
in order more effectually to define, secure, and perpetuate the liberties,
rights and privileges which they have derived from their ancestors; hereby,
after a careful consideration and revision, ordain and establish the following
constitution and form of civil government.
Article I, section
3
The exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and
worship, without discrimination, shall forever be free to all persons in the
state; provided, that the right hereby declared and established, shall not be so
construed as to excuse acts of licentiousness, or to justify practices
inconsistent with the peace and safety of the state.
Article I, section
20
No person shall be denied the equal protection of the law
nor be subjected to segregation or discrimination in the exercise or enjoyment
of his or her civil or political rights because of religion, race, color,
ancestry, national origin, sex or physical or mental disability.
Article VI, section
7
The general assembly may provide by law for voting in the
choice of any officer to be elected or upon any question to be voted on at an
election by qualified voters of the state who are unable to appear at the
polling place on the day of election because of absence from the city or town of
which they are inhabitants or because of sickness or physical disability or
because the tenets of their religion forbid secular activity.
Article VII
It being the right of all men to worship the Supreme Being,
the Great Creator and Preserver of the Universe, and to render that worship in a
mode consistent with the dictates of their consciences, no person shall by law
be compelled to join or support, nor be classed or associated with, any
congregation, church or religious association. No preference shall be given by
law to any religious society or denomination in the state. Each shall have and
enjoy the same and equal powers, rights and privileges, and may support and
maintain the ministers or teachers of its society or denomination, and may build
and repair houses for public worship.
Article XI, section
1
Members of the general assembly, and all officers,
executive and judicial, shall, before they enter on the duties of their
respective offices, take the following oath or affirmation, to wit:
You do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that
you will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of
the state of Connecticut, so long as you continue a citizen thereof; and that
you will faithfully discharge, according to law, the duties of the office
of...........to the best of your abilities. So help you
God.
Article VIII, section
4
The fund, called the school fund, shall remain a perpetual
fund, the interest of which shall be inviolably appropriated to the support and
encouragement of the public schools throughout the state, and for the equal
benefit of all the people thereof. The value and amount of said fund shall be
ascertained in such manner as the general assembly may prescribe, published, and
recorded in the comptroller's office; and no law shall ever be made, authorizing
such fund to be diverted to any other use than the encouragement and support of
public schools, among the several school societies, as justice and equity shall
require.