Current Language of NH Constitution, Article 6, Part I

New Hampshire Constitution, Pt. I Bill of Rights, Art. 6. Morality and Piety. (1968)
As morality and piety, rightly grounded on high principles, will give the best and greatest security to government, and will lay, in the hearts of men, the strongest obligations to due subjection; and as the knowledge of these is most likely to be propagated through a society, therefore, the several parishes, bodies, corporate, or religious societies shall at all times have the right of electing their own teachers, and of contracting with them for their support or maintenance, or both.

[Exclusive Right clause]

[Provision eliminated]

[Free Toleration clause]

But no person shall ever be compelled to pay towards the support of the schools of any sect or denomination. And every person, denomination or sect shall be equally under the protection of the law; and no subordination of any one sect, denomination or persuasion to another shall ever be established.

June 2, 1784
Amended 1968 to remove obsoltete sectarian references.

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