Florida (1821) in the treaty whereby Spain relinquished the territory of Florida to the United States, it was stated:
<Article V. The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be secured in the free exercise of their religion, without any restrictions.> 1821FL001
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Endnotes:
1821FL001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Florida, 1821, Article V of the Treaty with Spain. Frances Newton Thorpe, ed., Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the States, Territories, and Colonies now or heretofore forming the United States, 7 vols. (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1905; 1909; St. Clair Shores, MI: Scholarly Press, 1968), Vol. II, p. 651. Anson Phelps Stokes and Leo Pfeffer, Church and State in the United States (NY: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1950, revised one-volume edition, 1964), p. 156.