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1 The First Constitution of Liberia 1 (1847)

handle is hein.cow/firconstl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION & CULTURAL AFFAIRS MONROVIA, LIBERIA THE10 YIRST CO.7TITUTION OF LIBERIA The end of the-i nstitution, maintenance, and administra- tion of government ts to secure the existence of the body poLitic, to protect it, and to furnish the indvibduals who compose it, with the power of enjoying in safety and tran- quility their natural rights and the blesstngs of Ltfe, and whenever these great objects are not obtained, the people have a right to alter the government, and to take measures necessary for their afety, prosperity and hcppiness. Therefore, we, the People of the Commonwealth of Liberta, in Afrtca, acknowledging, with devout gratitude, the goodness of God, in granting to us the blessings of the Chrtattan religion, and political, reLigious, and ctvtt Liberty do, in order to secure these btessings for ourselves and our posterity, and to estabLish justice, inaure domestio peace, and promote the general welfare, hereby solemnly assoctate, and constitute ourselves a Free, Sovereign and Independent State, by the name of the REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA, and do ordain and estabLiah this Constitution for the government qf the sane. Sec. l. ALL men are born equally free and independent, and have certain natural, inherent and inalienable rights; mong which are the rights of enjoying and defending Life and Liberty, of acquiring, possessing and protecting property and of pursuing and obtaintng safety and happiness. Sec. 2. ALL power ts inherent in the people; all free governments are instituted by their authority and for their benefit and they have the right to alter and reform the same when their safety and happiness require it. Sec. 3. ALL men have a natural and inalienable right to worshtp God according to the dictates of their own consciences, without obstruction or molestation from others; all persons demeaning themselves peaceably, and not obatructing others in their religious worshtp, are entitled to the protection of Law, in the free exerctse of their own religion; and no sect of Chrtattans shall have excLusive privileges or preference over any other sect; but aLL shall be ailke tolerated: and no religious test whatever shall be required as a qualiftcation for ctvil offtce, or the exerctse of any civil right.

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