Preamble
Grateful to Almighty God for life and liberty, we, the
people of
Article I, section
4
The rights of conscience shall never be infringed. The
State shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting
the free exercise thereof; no religious test shall be required as a
qualification for any office of public trust or for any vote at any election;
nor shall any person be incompetent as a witness or juror on account of
religious belief or the absence thereof. There shall be no union of Church and
State, nor shall any church dominate the State or interfere with its functions.
No public money or property shall be appropriated for or applied to any
religious worship, exercise or instruction, or for the support of any
ecclesiastical establishment. No property qualification shall be required of any
person to vote, or hold office, except as provided in this Constitution.
Article III,
ordinance
First: Perfect toleration of religious sentiment is
guaranteed. No inhabitant of this State shall ever be molested in person or
property on account of his or her mode of religious worship; but polygamous or
plural marriages are forever prohibited.
Article III,
ordinance
Fourth: The Legislature shall make laws for the
establishment and maintenance of a system of public schools, which shall be open
to all the children of the State and be free from sectarian control.
Article X, section
1
The Legislature shall provide for the establishment and
maintenance of a uniform system of public schools, which shall be open to all
children of the State, and be free from sectarian control.
Article X, section
12
Neither religious nor partisan test or qualification shall
be required of any person, as a condition of admission, as teacher or student,
into any public educational institution of the State.
Article X, section
13
Neither the Legislature nor any county, city, town, school
district or other public corporation, shall make any appropriation to aid in the
support of any school, seminary, academy, college, university or other
institution, controlled in whole, or in part, by any church, sect or
denomination whatever.
Article XII, section
3
The Legislature shall provide by law a uniform and equal
rate of assessment and taxation on all property in the State, according to its
value in money, and shall prescribe by general law such regulations as shall
secure a just valuation for taxation of all property; so that every person and
corporation shall pay a tax in proportion to the value of his, her or its
property: Provided, That a deduction of debts from credits may be authorized:
Provided further, That the property of the United States, of the State,
counties, cities, towns, school districts, municipal corporations and public
libraries, lots with the buildings thereon used exclusively for either religious
worship or charitable purposes, and places of burial not held or used for
private or corporate benefit, shall be exempt from
taxation