Exhibit 526 ยท State constitution
New Hampshire Constitution of 1784, Part I, art. VI
no person of any one particular religious sect or denomination, shall ever be compelled to pay towards the support of the teacher or teachers of another persuasion, sect or denomination
Empowers the legislature to authorize towns, parishes and religious societies to make adequate provision at their own expense for public Protestant teachers, while providing that no person of one sect may be compelled to pay toward the teacher of another.
- Source
- State of New Hampshire (constitutional convention)
- Date
- 1784
- Quoted from
- Part I, art. VI (Thorpe, Federal and State Constitutions, 1909, 4:2454-55)
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendI_religions42.html
- Accessed
- 2026-11-09
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Shows the post-Revolution settlement was not uniform. Massachusetts (1780) and Connecticut: not yet read.