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Michigan can not legislate that all citizens of its state will be Mormans, because this is prohibited by the constituion because it infringes the freedom of religion of its citizens.
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Really? Where does it say this?
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Alex, not to revive an old thread, but I remember reading this, and thinking it was strange. Doesn't the first amendment prohibit michigan from making the above law?
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No.
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Michigan != Congress
It was never intended to limit the states and in some states you even had to be part of a specific branch of Christianity to vote.
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The first amendment has been
incorporated and it now applies to Michigan. That was not the case pre-Civil War.