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Excerpt from Chaplains of the General Government: With Objections to Their Employment Considered; Also, a List of All the Chaplains to Congress, in the Army and in the Navy, From the Formation of the Government to This Time
That they have had the subject under consideration, and, af ter careful examination, are not prepared to, come to the con clusion desired by the memorialists. Having made that deci sion, it is due that the reason should be given. Two clauses of the constitution are relied on by the memorialists to show that their prayer should be granted. One of these is in the sixth article, that no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States. If the whole section were quoted, we apprehend that no one could suppose it intended to apply to the ap pointment of chaplains. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
