Part First, article
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Every individual has a natural and unalienable right to
worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience, and reason; and no
subject shall be hurt, molested, or restrained, in his pers on, liberty, or estate, for worshiping God in the
manner and season most agreeable to the dictates of his own conscience; or for
his religious profession, sentiments, or persuasion; provided he doth not
disturb the public peace or disturb others in their religious worship.
Part First, article
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As morality and piety, rightly grounded on high principles,
will give the best and greatest security to government, and will lay, in the
hearts of men, the strongest obligations to due subjection; and as the knowledge
of these is most likely to be propagated through a society, therefore, the
several parishes, bodies, corporate, or religious societies shall at all times
have the right of electing their own teachers, and of contracting with them for
their support or maintenance, or both. But no person shall ever be compelled to
pay towards the support of the schools of any sect or denomination. And every
person, denomination or sect shall be equally under the protection of the law;
and no subordination of any one sect, denomination or persuasion to another
shall ever be established.