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Of religion
No person who acknowledges the being of a God, and a future state of rewards and punishments, shall, on account of his religious sentiments, be disqualified to hold any office or place of trust or profit, under this commonwealth.
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That all Men have a Natural and unalienable right to Worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own Consciences and Understanding. And that no Man ought or of right can be compelled to attend any Religious Worship, or Erect or support any place of Worship, or Maintain any Ministry, contrary to, or against his own free Will and Consent. Nor can any Man who acknowledges the being of a God be justly deprived or abridged of any Civil right as a Citizen, on Account of his Religious Sentiments or Peculiar mode of Religious Worship. And that no Authority can or ought to be vested in, or assumed by any power whatever that shall in any Case interfere with or in any manner Controul the right of Conscience in the free Exercise of Religious Worship.
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