 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 Testaments, or who shall hold religious principles incompatible with the freedom and safety of the State, shall be...  American Educational Monthly - Page 4421866Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Perkins - 1848 - 494 pages
...Testaments, 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 slate." Test acts of this character, however well intended, have been found to answer no valuable purpose.... | |
 | Calvin Henderson Wiley - 1852 - 232 pages
...Testament, or who shall hold religious principles incompatible with the freedom and safety of the State, shall be capable of holding any office or place of...profit in the Civil department within this State. SEC. 33. That the Justices of the Peace within the respective counties in this State, shall in future... | |
 | North Carolina. Supreme Court, Hamilton Chamberlain Jones - 1860 - 694 pages
...Testament, or who shall hold religious principles incompatible with the freedom and safety of the State, shall be capable of holding any office, or place of trust, or proMelvin v. Easley. fit in the civil department within thia State," (see Amendments to the Constitution,... | |
 | 1855 - 576 pages
...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...profit in the civil department within this state. Section 3. § 1. Capitation tax shall be equal throughout the state, upon ill individuals subject to... | |
 | 1855 - 512 pages
...that no person who shall hold religious opinions incompatible with the freedom and safety of the State shall be capable of holding any office or place of trust or profit in the civil department in that State. This provision is evidently dependent on construction for its vitality and strength.... | |
 | Edward Beecher - 1855 - 456 pages
...Testaments, or who shall hold religious principles incompatible with the freedom and safety of the state, shall be capable of holding any office, or place of trust or profit, in the civil government within this state.' Now, Mr. Gaston is at this moment a judge of the Court of Appeals of... | |
 | Horatio Prater - 1856 - 250 pages
...Protestant, in the following sentence : — " No person who shall deny the truth of the Protestant Religion, shall be capable of holding any office, or place of trust, or profit, in the civil department of the state." It is also stated in the same, that — ' All men have a natural and unalienable right... | |
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