Religion
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
As used in Ohio Const, art. 1, § 7, declaring " religion, morality, and knowledge " to be essential to good government, means the religion of mankind, and not the religion of any class of men. Religion is not within the purview of human government. There is no such thing as "religion of state."
Board of Education of Cincinnati v. Mmor, 23 Ohio St. 211.
The constitutional provision for "free exercise of religious profession and worship, without discrimination," does not interdict all legislation connected with religion; much less does it avoid legislation tending to promote religion, or even to advance the