State v. Cummings
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from, Pike Circuit Court. I. Requiring this oath of a clergyman before he can be allowed to preach, is inconsistent with the principles of government as declared by tlie Declaration of Eights in the first article of the Constitution.
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Appeal from, Pike Circuit Court. I. Requiring this oath of a clergyman before he can be allowed to preach, is inconsistent with the principles of government as declared by tlie Declaration of Eights in the first article of the Constitution. The provisions of the second article conflict with those of the first, and especially with sections 1, 2, 3, 9,18, and 27. What is the Declaration of Eights ? It is a declaration of the principles upon which the government is founded, the objects it is intended to secure, and of those fundamental rights which belong to the citizen as a man, and not as a…
1Opinion of the CourtWagner, Judge
The appellant stands convicted under sections three, six, nine and fourteen of the second article of the Constitution of this State. The ninth section, inter alia, declares that no person shall “ be competent as a bishop, priest, deacon, minister, elder, or other clergyman of any religious persuasion, sect, or denomination, to teach, or preach, or solemnize marriages,” unless such person shall have first “ taken, subscribed and filed” the oath specified in section six.
It is contended that that pari^ of the Constitution requiring the persons above enumerated to take, subscribe, and file said…
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