The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members
of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial
Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be
bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no
religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or
public Trust under the United States.
| 1. | An Act for the Well-Governing and Regulating of Corporations 13 Chas. 2, st. 2, cl. 1, sec. 3 (1661) |
| 2. | Delaware Constitution of 1776, ART. 22 |
| 3. | Vermont Constitution of 1777, CH. 2, SEC. 9 |
| 4. | Massachusetts Constitution of 1780, Articles of Amendments, arts. 6--7 |
| 5. | Benjamin Franklin to Richard Price, 9 Oct. 1780 |
| 6. | Petition of the Philadelphia Synagogue to Council of Censors of Pennsylvania, 23 Dec. 1783 |
| 7. | Benjamin Rush to Edward Hand, 10 Nov. 1784 |
| 8. | Benjamin Rush to Richard Price, 15 Oct. 1785 22 Apr. 1786 |
| 9. | Noah Webster, On Test Laws, Oaths of Allegiance and Abjuration, and Partial Exclusions from Office, Mar. 1787 |
| 10. | Records of the Federal Convention |
| 11. | Jonas Phillips to President and Members of the Convention, 7 Sept. 1787 |
| 12. | Tench Coxe, An Examination of the Constitution, Fall 1787 |
| 13. | James Madison to Edmund Pendleton, 28 Oct. 1787 |
| 14. | Oliver Ellsworth, Landholder, NO. 7, 17 Dec. 1787 |
| 15. | Alexander Hamilton, Federalist, no. 27, 174--75, 25 Dec. 1787 |
| 16. | "William Penn," no. 2, 3 Jan. 1788 |
| 17. | Oliver Wolcott, Connecticut Ratifying Convention, 9 Jan. 1788 |
| 18. | Luther Martin, Genuine Information, 1788 |
| 19. | James Madison, Federalist, no. 44, 307, 25 Jan. 1788 |
| 20. | Debate in Massachusetts Ratifying Convention, 30 Jan. 1788 |
| 21. | William Williams, Letter, 11 Feb. 1788 |
| 22. | James Madison to Edmund Randolph, 10 Apr. 1788 |
| 23. | Proposed Amendment, South Carolina Ratifying Convention, 23 May 1788 |
| 24. | Edmund Randolph, Virginia Ratifying Convention, 10 June 1788 |
| 25. | Proposed Amendment, New York Ratifying Convention, 26 July 1788 |
| 26. | William Lancaster, North Carolina Ratifying Convention, 30 July 1788 |
| 27. | Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 3:§§ 1838--43, 1833 |
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