...will be made as soon as circumstances will permit. 3. The Religion of the Mexican Nation is, and will be perpetually, the Roman Catholic Apostolic. The Nation will protect it by wise and just laws, and prohibit the exercise of any other whatever. TITLE iiu ONLY SECTION. — Form of Government of the...

...the Constitution read as follows : "The Religion of the Mexican nation is, and will perpetually be the Roman Catholic Apostolic. The nation will protect it by wise and just laws, and prohibit the exercise of any other whatever." Lucas Alaman was the intellectual leader of the clerical...

...accepted the following paragraph: "The religion of the Mexican nation is, and will perpetually be, the Roman Catholic Apostolic. The nation will protect it by wise and just laws and prohibit the exercise of any other whatever." Now came the Liberal party's program of reform. It demanded...

...the Nation."1 Liberty of worship was forbidden by the Constitution in these terms : "The religion of the Mexican nation is and shall be perpetually the Roman Catholic Apostolic. The nation shall protect it by wise and just laws, and shall forbid the exercise of any other."* This condition...

...nation is, and shall be perpetually, the Catholic, Apostolic, Boman, only true. The nation protects it by wise and just laws, and prohibits the exercise of any other." Over this Article, again, the Spanish patriots exulted, and, strange to confess it, their exultation...

...religion, the only true one, is and always shall he, th.it of thi" Spanish nation; the government protects it by wise and just laws, and prohibits the exercise of any other whatever. ГПЛРТКП in. Art. 13. The government has for its object the happiness of the nation,...

...and shall be perpetually, Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman, the only true religion. The uation protects it by wise and just laws, and prohibits the exercise of any other whatever." There can however be no doubt that the system of general instruction, and the enjoyment...