| United States. Constitutional Convention, Robert Yates - Constitutional conventions - 1821 - 320 pages
...be bound by oath or afiirmation, to support this constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office of public trust under the United States. ARTICLE VII. The ratification of the conventions of nine states, shall be suffic ient for the establishment... | |
| United States. Congress - Law - 1831 - 692 pages
...bound by oath or af' firmation to support this constitution: but no religious ' test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office ' of public trust under the United States." Thus stood the constitution, said Mr. D., when the judiciary act of 1789 was passed by Congress, and... | |
| John Lingard - Anti-Catholicism - 1826 - 518 pages
...the constitution.J But, by the same laws, it is also provided, that " no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office of public trust under the United States." If, then, the authority of those who framed the American constitution be of any weight, let it be taken... | |
| Grenville Mellen - United States - 1839 - 934 pages
...be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this conslitntion : but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office of public trust under the United States. ARTICLE VII. The ratification of the conventions of nine states, shall be sufficient for the menl of... | |
| 1853 - 796 pages
...lino of kings, and restore the scutcheons of her old nobility. § " No religions test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office of public trust under the United States." suppose that either can with safety be independent of the other. Even the heathen nations of antiquity... | |
| Thomas Francis Marshall - History - 1858 - 486 pages
...This is their text. One of the principles of the constitution is that "no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office of public trust under the United States." They have sworn, upon the holy evangelists, to exclude all men of the Catholic religion, whether citizens... | |
| Frank Moore - United States - 1862 - 830 pages
...be bound, by onth or affirmation, to support this Constitution ; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office of public trust under the Confederate Sta_tes. 5. The enumeration, in the Constitution, of cartain rights, shall not bo construed... | |
| Pennsylvania. General Assembly - Parliamentary practice - 1863 - 84 pages
...affirmation, to support Of a religious this Constitution ; but no religious test shall ever be required test. as a qualification to any office of public trust under the United 13 ARTICLE VII. The ratification of the Conventions of nine States shall be sufficient for the establishment... | |
| Edward Alfred Pollard - United States - 1863 - 432 pages
...be bound, by oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution ; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office of public trust under the Confederate States. 5. The enumeration, in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed... | |
| Jeremiah Lewis Diman - Fourth of July orations - 1866 - 726 pages
...prohibiting the free exercise thereof." It also 19 provides, that " no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office of public trust under the United States." The founder of the Christian religion warned his disciples against becoming entangled in worldly matters,... | |
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