American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

South Carolina Constitution (1790): <ARTICLE 1, SECTION 23. And whereas the ministers of the Gospel are by their profession dedicated to the service of God and the care of souls, and ought not to be diverted from the great duties of their function, therefore no minister of the Gospel or public Preacher of any religious persuasion, while he continues in the exercise of his pastoral function, shall be eligible to the office of governor, lieutenant-governor, or to a seat in the senate or house of representatives. ARTICLE 8, SECTION 1. The free exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and worship,...

Pennsylvania Constitution (1790): <We, the people of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of civil and religious liberty, and humbly invoking His guidance, do ordain and establish this Constitution... ARTICLE 9, SECTION 3. That all men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences; that no man can of right be compelled to attend, erect, or support any place of worship, or to maintain any Ministry, against his consent; that no human authority can, in any case whatever, control or interfere with the rights of...

Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (May 29, 1790) was the 13th State admitted to the Union. In 1784, the legislature of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations passed an Act abolishing slavery within the State. On May 29, 1790, the Convention of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations ratified the Constitution of the United Staets: <We the Delegates of the People of the State of Rhode-Island, and Providence Plantations, duly elected and met in Convention, having maturely considered the Constitution for the United States of America, agreed to on the seventeenth day of September, in the...

John Tyler (March 29, 1790-January 18, 1862) was the 10th President of the United States, 1841-45, responsible for the Annexation of Texas, 1844, the city of Tyler, Texas, being his namesake; the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 1842, ending the border disputes with Canada; joint U.S.-British naval patrols off the African coast to suppress the slave trade; and the United States' first commercial trade treaty with China; Chancellor of the College of William and Mary, 1860; married Julia Gardiner, 1844, after death of first wife; Vice-President under William Henry Harrison, 1841, being the first to assume the Presidency at the death of a President;...

Georgia Constitution (1789): <ARTICLE 4, SECTION 5: All persons shall have the free exercise of religion, without being obligated to contribute to the support of any religion but their own.> 1789GA001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1789GA001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Georgia Constitution, 1789.