Vermont Constitution
Chapter I, article 3.
That all persons have a natural and unalienable right, to worship
Almighty God, according to the dictates of their own consciences and
understandings, as in their opinion shall be regulated by the word of
God; and that no person ought
to, or of right can be compelled to attend any religious worship, or
erect or support any place of worship, or maintain any
minister, contrary to the dictates of conscience, nor can any person be
justly deprived or abridged of any civil right as a citizen, on account
of religious sentiments, or peculia[r] 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
control the rights of conscience, in the free exercise of religious
worship. Nevertheless, every sect or denomination of christians ought
to observe the sabbath or Lord's day, and keep up some sort of
religious worship, which to them shall seem most agreeable to the
revealed will of God.
Washington Constitution
Article I, section 11
No public money or property shall be appropriated for or applied to any
religious worship, exercise or instruction, or the support of any
religious establishment. . . .
Illinois Constitution
Article X, section 3.
Neither the General Assembly nor any county, city, town, township,
school district, or other public corporation, shall ever make any
appropriation or pay from any public fund whatever, anything in aid of
any church or sectarian purpose, or to help support or sustain any
school, academy, seminary, college, university, or other literary or
scientific institution, controlled by any church or sectarian
denomination whatever; nor shall any grant or donation of land, money,
or other personal property ever be made by the State, or any such
public corporation, to any church, or for any sectarian purpose.
Massachusetts Constitution
Article XVIII.
Section 1. No law shall be passed prohibiting the free exercise of
religion.
Section 2. All moneys raised by taxation in the towns and cities for
the support of public schools, and all moneys which may be appropriated
by the commonwealth for the support of common schools shall be applied
to, and expended in, no other schools than those which are conducted
according to law, under the order and superintendence of the
authorities of the town or city in which the money is expended; and no
grant, appropriation or use of public money or property or loan of
public credit shall be made or authorized by the commonwealth or any
political division thereof for the purpose of founding, maintaining or
aiding any other school or institution of learning, whether under
public control or otherwise, wherein any denominational doctrine is
inculcated, or any other school, or any college, infirmary, hospital,
institution, or educational, charitable or religious undertaking which
is not publicly owned and under the exclusive control, order and
superintendence of public officers or public agents authorized by the
commonwealth or federal authority or both, except that appropriations
may be made for the maintenance and support of the Soldiers' Home in
Massachusetts and for free public libraries in any city or town, and to
carry out legal obligations, if any, already entered into; and no such
grant, appropriation or use of public money or property or loan of
public credit shall be made or authorized for the purpose of founding,
maintaining or aiding any church, religious denomination or society.
Florida Constitution
Article I, section 3.
There shall be no law respecting the establishment of religion or
prohibiting or penalizing the free exercise thereof. Religious freedom
shall not justify practices inconsistent with public morals, peace or
safety. No revenue of the state or any political subdivision or agency
thereof shall ever be taken from the public treasury directly or
indirectly in aid of any church, sect, or religious denomination or in
aid of any sectarian institution.
Arizona Constitution
Article 2, Section 12 - Liberty of conscience; appropriations for
religious purposes prohibited; religious freedom
Section 12. The liberty of conscience secured by the provisions of this
constitution shall not be so construed as to excuse acts of
licentiousness, or justify practices inconsistent with the peace and
safety of the state. No public money
or property shall be appropriated for or applied to any religious
worship, exercise, or instruction, or to the support of any religious
establishment. No religious qualification shall be required for
any public office or employment, nor shall any person be incompetent as
a witness or juror in consequence of his opinion on matters of
religion, nor be questioned touching his religious belief in any court
of justice to affect the weight of his testimony.