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" 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. "
History of North America - Page 39
by John Talbot - 1820 - 4 pages
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Arguments of the Defendants' Counsel, and Judgment of the Supreme Court, U.S ...

Horace Binney - 1844 - 330 pages
...shall ever be given by law to any religious establishments or modes of worship." Art. IX. sec. 3. " No person who acknowledges the being of a God, and...hold any office or place of trust or profit under this Commonwealth." Art. IX. sec. 4. Christianity is a part of the law of Pennsylvania, it is true;...
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The History of the Institution of the Sabbath Day, Its Uses and Abuses: With ...

William Logan Fisher - 1845 - 216 pages
...of Pennsylvania, ministers, in a slight degree, to this sectarianism. It provides on this subject, "That no person who acknowledges the being of a God,...hold any office or place of trust or profit under this commonwealth." From this we are of course to infer, that persons who do not believe in a God,...
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The Suppressed History of the Administration of John Adams: From 1797 to ...

John Wood - 1846 - 412 pages
...2d of February, to strike out of the constitutional regulations about holding offices, the words " who acknowledges the being of a God, and a future state of rewards and punishments." He stayed away from the Senate without any cause for nineteen weeks and four days, so...
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The Suppressed History of the Administration of John Adams, (from 1797 to ...

John Wood - 1846 - 404 pages
...2d of February, to strike out of the constitutional regulations about holding offices, the words " who acknowledges the being of a God, and a future state of rewards and punishments." He stayed away from the Senate without any cause for nineteen weeks and four days, so...
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The historical landmarks and other evidences of freemasonry ..., Volume 1

George Oliver - 1846 - 636 pages
...assertion. All our charges, all our regulations, assume as a foundation which eannot be moved, a belief in the being of a God, and a future state of rewards and punishments ; and inculeate the necessity of moral purity, as a qualifieation for future happiness...
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The True Republican: Containing the Inaugural Addresses, Together with the ...

Jonathan French - 1847 - 506 pages
...no preferenee shall ever be given, by law, to any religious establishments or modes of worship. 4. That no person who acknowledges the being of a God...hold any office or place of trust or profit under this commonwealth. 5. That elections shall be free and equal. 6. That trial by jury shall be as heretofore,...
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The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year, Volume 19

1847 - 402 pages
...disqualified for office; but the governor may remove this disqualification. No person acknowledging " the being of a God, and a future state of rewards...account of his religious sentiments, be disqualified" for office. In all libel suits, if the matter concern the official conduct of public men, or the matter...
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Commentaries on Statute and Constitutional Law and Statutory and ...

E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1004 pages
...and no preference shall ever be given, by law, to any religious establishment or modes of worship. " No person who acknowledges the being of a God, and...hold any office or place of trust or profit under this commonwealth. " Elections shall be free and equal. " Trial by jury shall be as heretofore, and...
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The American's Own Book: Or, The Constitutions of the Several States in the ...

John Bigelow - 1848 - 538 pages
...no preference shall ever be given, by law, to any religious establishments or modes of worship. 4. That no person who acknowledges the being of a God...rewards and punishments, shall, on account of his re~ ligious sentiments, be disqualified to hold any office or place of trust or profit under this commonwealth....
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Mercersburg Review, Volume 3

1851 - 644 pages
...to those holding the view which is therein virtually condemned. It is found in Art. IX Sect. 4 — " That no person who acknowledges the being of a God,...hold any office, or place of trust or profit under this Commonwealth." And it is assuredly significant that thu article was retained, unamended. in the...
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