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Can states add provisions to their constitution requiring representatives to be a certain religion?
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∙ 13y ago
No, because the states have to go by the US Constitution and under Amendment I in the Bill of Rights, it says that the government cannot have a national religion, nor can the government favor one religion over another. In this case, it would be favoring one religion over another.
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