Article II, section
11
Every man shall be free to worship God according to the
dictates of his own conscience, and no person shall ever be molested or denied
any civil or political right or privilege on account of his religious opinion or
mode of religious worship. No person shall be required to attend any place of
worship or support any religious sect or denomination; nor shall any preference
be given by law to any religious denomination or mode of worship.
Article VII, section
3
The right of any citizen of the state to vote, hold office
or sit upon juries, shall never be restricted, abridged or impaired on account
of religion, race, language or color, or inability to speak, read or write the
English or Spanish languages except as may be otherwise provided in this
constitution; and the provisions of this section and of Section One of this
article shall never be amended except upon a vote of the people of this state in
an election at which at least three-fourths of the electors voting in the whole
state, and at least two-thirds of those voting in each county of the state,
shall vote for such amendment.
Article XXI, section
1
Perfect toleration of religious sentiment shall be secured,
and no inhabitant of this state shall ever be molested in person or property on
account of his or her mode of religious worship. Polygamous or plural marriages
and polygamous cohabitation are forever prohibited.
Article XII, section
9
No religious test shall ever be required as a condition of
admission into the public schools or any educational institution of this state,
either as a teacher or student, and no teacher or student of such school or
institution shall ever be required to attend or participate in any religious
service whatsoever.
Article XXI, section
4
Provision shall be made for the establishment and
maintenance of a system of public schools which shall be open to all the
children of the state and free from sectarian control, and said schools shall
always be conducted in English.
Article IV, section
31
No appropriation shall be made for charitable, educational
or other benevolent purposes to any person, corporation, association,
institution or community, not under the absolute control of the state, but the
legislature may, in its discretion, make appropriations for the charitable
institutions and hospitals, for the maintenance of which annual appropriations
were made by the legislative assembly of nineteen hundred and nine.
Article VIII, section
3
The property of the United States, the state and all
counties, towns, cities and school districts and other municipal corporations,
public libraries, community ditches and all laterals thereof, all church
property not used for commercial purposes, all property used for educational or
charitable purposes, all cemeteries not used or held for private or corporate
profit and all bonds of the state of New Mexico, and of the counties,
municipalities and districts thereof shall be exempt from taxation. Provided,
however, that any property acquired by public libraries, community ditches and
all laterals thereof, property acquired by churches, property acquired and used
for educational or charitable purposes, and property acquired by cemeteries not
used or held for private, or corporate profit, and property acquired by the
Indian service and property acquired by the United States government or by the
state of New Mexico by outright purchase or trade, where such property was,
prior to such transfer, subject to the lien of any tax or assessment for the
principal or interest of any bonded indebtedness shall not be exempt from such
lien, nor from the payment of such taxes or assessments. Exemptions of personal
property from ad valorem taxation may be provided by law if approved by a
three-fourths majority vote of all the members elected to each house of the
legislature.