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7595. RIGHTS, Deprivation of.—

The
proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public
confidence, by laying upon him an incapacity
of being called to offices of trust or
emolument, unless he profess or renounce
this or that religious opinion, is depriving
him injudiciously of those privileges and advantages
to which, in common with his fellow
citizens, he has a natural right.—
Statute of Religious Freedom. Ford ed., ii, 238.
(1779)