Georgia Constitution (1798):
<ARTICLE 4, SECTION 10: No person within this state shall, upon any pretense, be deprived of the inestimable privilege of worshipping God in any manner agreeable to his own conscience, nor be compelled to attend any place of worship contrary to his own faith and judgment; nor shall he ever be obliged to pay tithes, taxes, or any other rate, for the building or repairing any place of worship, or for the maintenance of any minister or Ministry, contrary to what he believes to be right, or hath voluntarily engaged...No one religious society shall ever be established in this state, in preference to another; nor shall any person be denied the enjoyment of any civil right merely on account of his religious principles.> 1798GA001
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Endnotes:
1798GA001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Georgia Constitution, 1798, Article 4, Section 10.