"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
—John Dalberg-Acton
—John Dalberg-Acton
US Bill of Rights Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
The Constitution of the Republic of Korea (South Korea)
Article 20: [Religion, Church] (1) All citizens enjoy the freedom of religion.
(2) No state religion may be recognized, and church and state are to be separated.
The Constitution of Japan Article 20: Freedom of religion is guaranteed to all.
No religious organization shall receive any privileges from the State, nor exercise any political authority.
2) No person shall be compelled to take part in any religious acts, celebration, rite or practice.
3) The State and its organs shall refrain from religious education or any other religious activity.
The Virginia Act For Establishing Religious Freedom Thomas Jefferson, 1786
Well aware that Almighty God hath created the mind free; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burdens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy Author of our religion, who being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either...
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