Article IV.

Section 2.

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The thirty-second section of the Constitution shall be amended to read as follows: No person who shall deny the being of God, or the truth of the Christian Religion, or the divine authority of the Old or New Testament, or who shall hold religious principles incompatible with the freedom or safety of the State, shall be capable of holding any office or place of trust or profit in the civil department within this State.

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That no person who shall deny the being of God or the truth of the Protestant Religion, or the divine Authority either of the old or new Testament, or who shall hold Religious Principles incompatable with the Freedom and safety of the State, shall be capable of holding any Office or place or Trust or Profit in the Civil department within this State.

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