Georgia Constitution (1861):
<ARTICLE 1, SECTION 2: God has ordained that men shall live under government; but as the forms and administration of civil government are in human, and therefore, fallible hands, they may be altered, or modified whenever the safety or happiness of the governed requires it. No government should be changed for light or transient causes; nor unless upon reasonable assurance that a better will be established.
ARTICLE 1, SECTION 7: No religious test shall be required for the tenure of any office, and no religion shall be established by law, and no citizen shall be deprived of any right or privilege by reason of his religious belief.> 1861GA001
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Endnotes:
1861GA001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Georgia Constitution, 1861.