Preamble
We, the people of Kansas, grateful to Almighty God for our
civil and religious privileges, in order to insure the full enjoyment of our
rights as American citizens, do ordain and establish this constitution of the
state of Kansas, with the following boundaries, to wit: Beginning at a point on
the western boundary of the state of Missouri, where the thirty-seventh parallel
of north latitude crosses the same; thence running west on said parallel to the
twenty-fifth meridian of longitude west from Washington; thence north on said
meridian to the fortieth parallel of north latitude; thence east on said
parallel to the western boundary of the state of Missouri; thence south with the
western boundary of said state to the place of beginning.
Article I, section
7
The right to worship God according to the dictates of
conscience shall never be infringed; nor shall any person be compelled to attend
or support any form of worship; nor shall any control of or interference with
the rights of conscience be permitted, nor any preference be given by law to any
religious establishment or mode of worship. No religious test or property
qualification shall be required for any office of public trust, nor for any vote
at any elections, nor shall any person be incompetent to testify on account of
religious belief.
Article VIII, section
1
The militia shall be composed of all able-bodied male
citizens between the ages of twenty-one and forty-five years, except such as are
exempted by the laws of the United States or of this state; but all citizens of
any religious denomination whatever who from scruples of conscience may be
adverse to bearing arms shall be exempted therefrom,
upon such conditions as may be prescribed by law.
Article VI, section
6
(c) No religious sect or sects shall control any part of
the public educational funds.