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Religious Test

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

A belief in certain dogmas of religion which are prerequisite to the holding of a civil office, or the exercise of any civil right. "No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States." Const, art.

6, i 3.