Report of the Committee on Schools and Views of the Minority of the Board of Education of the New Haven City School District, Concerning the Discontinuance of Religious Exercises in the Public Schools

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Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1878 - 32 páginas
 

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Página 30 - IT is the right as well as the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons, to worship the SUPREME BEING, the great creator and preserver of the universe.
Página 10 - The exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and worship, without discrimination, shall forever be free to all persons in this State; provided that the right hereby declared and established, shall not be so construed as to excuse acts of 81 licentiousness, or to justify practices inconsistent with the peace and safety of the State. SEC. 4. No preference shall be given by law to any Christian sect or mode of worship.
Página 31 - And each and every society or denomination of Christians in this State, shall have and enjoy the same and equal powers, rights and privileges...
Página 32 - ... every person who shall blaspheme against God, either of the Persons of the Holy Trinity, the Christian religion, or the Holy Scripture.
Página 7 - They shall prescribe rules for the management, studies, classification, and discipline of the public schools, and, subject to- the control of the State board of education, the text-books to be used...
Página 7 - School visitors, town school committees, or boards of education shall, as a board, or by a committee by them appointed, examine all persons desiring to teach in the public schools; and give to those with whose moral character and ability they are satisfied, if found qualified to teach reading, writing, arithmetic, and grammar, the rudiments of geography and history, and the rudiments of drawing if required...
Página 8 - Provided, that no certificate shall be given to any person not found qualified to teach reading, writing, arithmetic and grammar thoroughly, and the rudiments of geography and history...
Página 10 - It being the duty of all men to worship the Supreme Being, the Great Creator and Preserver of the Universe, and their right to render that worship, in the mode most consistent with the dictates of their consciences; no person shall by law be compelled to join or support, nor be classed with, or associated to, any congregation, church, or religious association.
Página 31 - Given under my hand, at the city of Washington, this twenty-eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and of the independence of the United States the forty-second. By the President: JAMES MONROE. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, Secretary of State.
Página 22 - The objections to the doctrine (of secular education) urged by those who dissent from it, when traced to their final application, are simply objections to the system of government which the American people have chosen to adopt, and under which they are now living. The objectors, in effect, find fault with the theory of a State that has no religious creed to teach, support, or enforce. Their argument, if good at all...

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