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1Religious test — The Test Act of 1673 in England obligated all persons filling any office, civil or military, to take oaths of supremacy and allegiance, to subscribe to a declaration against transubstantiation, and to receive the sacrament within three months of… …
2religious test — An appraisal of a person according to the religion in which he believes. No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States. US Const, Art VI, cl 3 …
3No Religious Test Clause — United States of America This article is part of the series: United States Constitution Original text of the Constitution Preamble Articles of the Constitution I · …
4No religious test clause — The no religious test clause of the United States Constitution is found in Article VI, section 3, and states that:This has been interpreted to mean that no federal employee, whether elected or appointed, career or political, can be required to… …
5Religious freedom in the Philippines — is guaranteed by the Constitution of the Philippines.BackgroundConstitutionThe 1987 Constitution of the Philippines declares: The separation of Church and State shall be inviolable. (Article II, Section 6), and, No law shall be made respecting an …
6Religious discrimination — is valuing or treating a person or group differently because of what they do or do not believe. A concept like that of religious discrimination is necessary to take into account ambiguities of the term religious persecution . The infamous cases… …
7test act — 1. any law requiring a person to belong to the established church of a country as a condition for holding public office. 2. (caps.) Eng. Hist. the statute (1673) requiring all military officers and public officials to take an oath of allegiance… …
8Test Act — The Test Acts were a series of English penal laws that served as a religious test for public office and imposed various civil disabilities on Roman Catholics and Nonconformists. The principle that none but persons professing the Established… …
9Religious Life — • Overview and evangelical ideas on what makes up religious life Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Religious Life Religious Life …
10Religious belief — refers to a mental state in which trust (faith) is placed in a creed related to the supernatural, sacred, or divine. Such a state may relate to: 1) the existence, characteristics and worship of a deity or deities, 2) divine intervention in the… …
