Massachusetts Constitution (November 6, 1917) Amendment, Article 18, Section 1:
<No law shall be passed prohibiting the free exercise of religion.> 1917MA001
The Massachusetts Constitution (November 6, 1917), Amendment, Article 11, stated:
<Instead of Article 3 of the bill of rights, the following modification and amendment thereof is substituted. As the public worship of God and instructions in piety, religion and morality, promote the happiness and prosperity of a people and the security of a republican government; therefore, the several religious societies of this commonwealth, whether corporate or unincorporate, at any meeting legally warned and holden for that purpose, shall ever have the right to elect their pastors or religious teachers, to contract with them for their support, to raise money for erecting and repairing houses for public worship, for the maintenance of religious instruction, and for the payment of necessary expenses:
and all persons belonging to any religious society shall be taken and held to be members, until they shall file with the clerk of such society, a written notice, declaring the dissolution of their membership, and thenceforth shall not be liable for any grant or contract which may be thereafter made, or entered into by such society: and all religious sects and denominations, demeaning themselves peaceably, and as good citizens of the commonwealth, shall be equally under the protection of the law; and no subordination of any one sect or denomination to another shall ever be established by law." [See Amendments, Arts. XLVI and XLVIII, The Initiative, section 2, and The Referendum, section 2].> 1917MA002
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1917MA001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Massachusetts Constitution, November 6, 1917, Amendment, Article 18, Section 1.
1917MA002. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Massachusetts Constitution, November 6, 1917, Amendment, Article 11.