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To: P_A_I

Didn't you read what i posted above ?

Article VI of the Constitution guarantees that "no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States" reflecting the growing movement in America towards religious freedom and also encouraging many states to end religious tests. After the U.S. Constitution came a shift in state constitutions as Georgia (1789), Delaware (1792), Vermont (1793), and Tennessee (1796) expressly forbade religious tests, and Kentucky (1792) did not mention them. Of the other two states to change constitutions in this period, Pennsylvania (1790) extended its religious test to allow Jews as well as Christians to hold office while South Carolina (1790) was the only state to continue a religious test unaltered.(7)


94 posted on 04/15/2005 9:32:01 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: Raycpa
I read what you posted, but apparently you do not agree with the clear words of Article VI.

" -- but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States. -- "

Offices including:
"--- The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; -- "

Apparently you do not accept that State officials were included in the 'religious test' portion of Article VI.

Why is that?

98 posted on 04/15/2005 9:42:40 PM PDT by P_A_I
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