Preamble
To perpetuate the principles of free government, insure
justice to all, preserve peace, promote the interest and happiness of the
citizen and of the family, and transmit to posterity the enjoyment of liberty,
we the people of Georgia, relying upon the protection and guidance of Almighty
God, do ordain and establish this Constitution.
Article I, section 1, paragraph
3
Each person has the natural and inalienable right to
worship God, each according to the dictates of that person's own conscience; and
no human authority should, in any case, control or interfere with such right of
conscience.
Article I, section 1, paragraph
4
No inhabitant of this state shall be molested in person or
property or be prohibited from holding any public office or trust on account of
religious opinions; but the right of freedom of religion shall not be so
construed as to excuse acts of licentiousness or justify practices inconsistent
with the peace and safety of the state.
Article I, section 2, paragraph
7
No money shall ever be taken from the public treasury,
directly or indirectly, in aid of any church, sect, cult, or religious
denomination or of any sectarian institution.
Article VII, section 2, paragraph
4
Those types of exemptions from ad valorem taxation provided for by law on June 30, 1983, are
hereby continued in effect as statutory law until otherwise provided for by law.
Any law which reduces or repeals exemptions granted to religious or burial
grounds or institutions of purely public charity must be approved by two-thirds
of the members elected to each branch of the General
Assembly.