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1822 July 7
Constitut. Code

Ch. or § No system of belief on the subject of religion
ought to be established.
Ch. or § The No power of government ought to be employed
in the endeavour to establish any system or article of
belief on the subject of Religion.

If any such power be thus employed, it will be
in its power, or in respect of the immediate application
made of it to the purpose of producing or confirming belief
to the effect in question by furnishing appropriate inducement,
be of the nature of remunerative power, is of
the nature of punitive power, or a conjunction of both.
Power thus employed will be either remunerative or punitive
or both.

In The belief thus endeavoured to be inculcated will be
either true or false. This applies The observation applies to the whole
system taken in the aggregate and to each distinguishable
article.

To Consider in the first place the every application that can be made of remunerative
power to this purpose.

First let the system be supposed true. In On this case supposition
the application of remunerative power is needless. Say
Establishment needless.

But it is only by coercion applied in the way of
taxation can the matter of reward whatever it be that is
applied to this purpose be collected. Such application is
therefore burthensome and as such pernicious. Say Establishment
pernicious, viz. so by needless and useless burthen imposed in a pecuniary
shape.

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Date_1	1822-07-07	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code rationale
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