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To: analog
There are other references to it on the net, This was a very, very early New York State Supreme Court Decision.

Here are some more.

New Hampshire: The State Constitutions of 1784 and 1792 mandated that senators and representatives should be of the "Protestant religion," and this requirement remained in force until 1877.

Delaware: The State Constitution of 1779 required every officeholder to make the following affirmation: "I ... do profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ His Only Son, and in the Holy Ghost, one God blessed forevermore; and I do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by Divine inspiration."

The Constitution of the Carolinas: "No mar, shall be permitted to be a freeman of Carolina. or to have any estate or habitation within it that doth not acknowledge a God, and that God is publicly and solemnly to be worshipped."

North Carolina: The State Constitution of 1776 declared: "That no person who shall deny the being of God ... or the divine authority either of the Old and New Testaments, or who shall hold religious. principles incompatible with the freedom and safety of the State, shall be capable of holding any office or place of trust or profit in the civil department within this State."

Maryland: The State Constitution of 1776 required that every person appointed to any office of trust must "subscribe a declaration of his belief in the Christian religion." Moreover, as late as 1864 this same Constitution required "a declaration of belief in the Christian religion, or of the existence of God, and in future state of rewards and punishments."

Mississippi: The State Constitution or 1817 stated that "no person who denies the being of God or a future state of rewards and punishments shall hold any office in the civil department of the state."

Massachusetts Bay Colony: Only persons who were church members were entitled to vote.

Chancellor Kent, the chief justice of the Supreme Court of New York, observed in The People v. Ruggles (8 John, 290, 294, 295) that "The people of this State, in common with the people of this country, profess the general doctrines of Christianity, as the rule of their faith and practice . . ."

Shover v. The State (10 English, 263): Here the Arkansas Supreme Court affirmed, "This system of religion (Christianity) is recognized as constituting a part and parcel of the common. . ."

59 posted on 06/26/2002 2:58:10 PM PDT by FF578
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To: FF578
and now all we have is freaks in office, oh yes the communist take over without a shot is being played out to a tee! Or will it?
63 posted on 06/26/2002 3:05:28 PM PDT by TLBSHOW
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