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This act enforced upon all persons filling any office, civil, military or religious, the obligation of taking the oaths of supremacy and allegiance and subscribing to a declaration against transubstantiation and also of receiving the sacrament within three months after admittance to office. [1] The oath for the Test Act 1673 was:
The Test Act 1673 in England obligated all persons filling any office, civil or military, to take oaths of supremacy and allegiance, to subscribe to a declaration against transubstantiation, and to receive the sacrament within three months of taking office.
Shaftesbury supported the Test Act, and, alongside James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, received the sacrament at St Clement Danes, with John Locke serving as the legal witness for each man's conformity with the Test Act. [2] In March 1673, Shaftesbury supported a bill for easing the plight of the Protestant dissenters in England, but nothing ...
Popish Recusants Act 1672 or the Test Act 1673 (repealed) 25 Cha. 2. c. 2. 29 March 1673. An Act for preventing Dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants.
The first provision excluded all non-conformists; the second Catholics only. The Test Act 1673 (25 Cha. 2. c. 2) imposed on all officers, civil and military, a "Declaration against Transubstantiation", whereby Catholics were debarred from such employment. Five years later, the Test Act 1678 (30 Cha. 2.
Well, Americans stopped being a “religious People” quite a long time ago. And they are becoming progressively less attached to organized religion by the day. The Coming Test Acts Will ...
Just look at Dr. Bollier’s past.She has a long history of attacking religious freedom. In 2018, on the Kansas state senate floor, she called the Catholic religion “sick” and even said, “I ...
In short, there is no religious consensus in America. Never has been. Once we begin allowing the government to pick and choose which religions it will promote – or discourage – the lid flies off.