 | John Gilmary Shea - Bishops - 1888 - 736 pages
...office. Pennsylvania (1776) in her Constitution (Sect. IV.), clearly and explicitly declared " that no person, who acknowledges the being of a God and...rewards and punishments, shall, on account of his religions sentiments, be disqualified to hold any office or place of trust or profit under this commonwealth."... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - 1888 - 724 pages
...office. Pennsylvania (1776) in her Constitution (Sect. IV.), clearly and explicitly declared "that no person, who acknowledges the being of a God and...rewards and punishments, shall, on account of his religions sentiments, be disqualified to hold any office or place of trust or profit under this commonwealth."... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1890 - 1014 pages
...Constitution of Pennsylvania provides " that no person who acknowledges the being of God, and a future elate of rewards and punishments, shall, on account of his...sentiments, be disqualified to hold any office or plnoe of trust or profit under this Common wealth." Art. 1, §4. — The Constitution of North Carolina:... | |
 | William James Reid - 1892 - 214 pages
...Webb's Lexicon, page 344. "All our regulations assume, as a foundation that cannot be moved, a belief in the being of a God, and a future state of rewards and punishments, and cultivate the necessity of moral purity as a qualification for future happiness ;... | |
 | James Irwin Brownson - Washington County (Pa.) - 1910 - 74 pages
...commonwealth", he supported and voted for a motion, made by another member, to strike out the words "who acknowledges the being of a God and a future state of rewards and punishments", the effect of which would have been to make the section provide simply that no person... | |
 | 1910 - 446 pages
...complaint is made concerning her ability or morality. It is not alleged that she does not acknowledge the being of a God and a future state of rewards and punishments, nor is it complained that she has ever used her school to impart to her scholars sectarian... | |
 | William Addison Blakely, Willard Allen Colcord - Ecclesiastical law - 1911 - 820 pages
...preference shall ever be given by law to any religious establishments or modes of worship. SECTION 4. N'o person who acknowledges the being of a God and...disqualified to hold any office or place of trust or profit under this commonwealth. ARTICLE X. EDUCATION. SECTION 2. Xo money raised for the support of the public... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 1332 pages
...shall ever be given by law to any religious establishments or modes of worship," or the provision that "no person who acknowledges the being of a God and a future state of rewards and punishment shall, on account of his religious sentiments, be disqualified to hold any office or place... | |
 | Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Legislative Reference Bureau - Constitution - 1916 - 310 pages
...of 1838, Art. IX, Sec. 3. (Verbatim.) Constitution of 1873, Art. I, Sec. 3. (Verbatim.) Sec. 4. That no person, who acknowledges the being of a God and...disqualified to hold any office or place of trust or profit under this commonwealth. Corresponding provisions of prior and subsequent Constitutions: Constitution... | |
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No person who acknowledges the being of a God, and a future state of rewards and punishments, shall, on account of his religious sentiments, be disqualified to hold any office or place of trust or profit under this Commonwealth. 
