New Hampshire Constitution (1968):
<ARTICLE 5. Every individual has a natural and unalienable right to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience, and reason; and no subject shall be hurt, molested, or restrained, in his person, liberty, or estate, for worshipping God in the manner and season most agreeable to the dictates of his own conscience; or for his religious profession, sentiments, or persuasion; provided he doth not disturb the public peace or disturb others in their religious worship.
ARTICLE 6. As morality and piety, rightly grounded on high principles, will give the best and greatest security to government, and will lay, in the hearts of men, the strongest obligations to due subjection; and as the knowledge of these is most likely to be propagated through a society, therefore, the several parishes, bodies, corporate, or religious societies shall at all times have the right of electing their own teachers, and of contracting with them for their support or maintenance, or both.
But no person shall ever be compelled to pay towards the support of the schools of any sect or denomination. And every person, denomination or sect shall be equally under the protection of the law; and no subordination of any one sect, denomination or persuasion to another shall ever be established. Amended 1968 to remove obsolete sectarian references.
ARTICLE 84. Any person chosen governor, councilor, senator, or representative, military or civil officer... shall...make and subscribe the following declaration, viz.
"I, A.B. do solemnly swear, that I will bear faith and true allegiance to the United States of America and the state of New Hampshire, and will support the constitution thereof. So Help Me God." June 2, l784, Amended l792 three times, changing president to governor; shortening oath of allegiance; and dispensing with need to take second oath. Amended l970 adding allegiance to the United States of America.> 1968NH001
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1968NH001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). New Hampshire Constitution, 1968.