Preamble
We the people of Montana grateful to God for the quiet
beauty of our state, the grandeur of our mountains, the vastness of our rolling
plains, and desiring to improve the quality of life, equality of opportunity and
to secure the blessings of liberty for this and future generations do ordain and
establish this constitution.
Article II, section
5
The state shall make no law respecting an establishment of
religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. Education
Article X, section
6
(1) The legislature, counties, cities, towns, school
districts, and public corporations shall not make any direct or indirect
appropriation or payment from any public fund or monies, or any grant of lands
or other property for any sectarian purpose or to aid any church, school,
academy, seminary, college, university, or other literary or scientific
institution, controlled in whole or in part by any church, sect, or
denomination. (2) This section shall not apply to funds from federal sources
provided to the state for the express purpose of distribution to non-public
education.
Article X, section
7
No religious or partisan test or qualification shall be
required of any teacher or student as a condition of admission into any public
educational institution. Attendance shall not be required at any religious
service. No sectarian tenets shall be advocated in any public educational
institution of the state. No person shall be refused admission to any public
educational institution on account of sex, race, creed, religion, political
beliefs, or national origin.
Article VII, section
5
(1) The legislature may exempt from
taxation:
(a) Property of the
(b) Institutions of purely public charity, hospitals and places
of burial not used or held for private or corporate profit, places for actual
religious worship, and property used exclusively for educational purposes.
(c) Any other classes of property.