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Declarator
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\ 24. That there ought to be no forfeiture of any part of the
estate of any person for any crime except murder, or treason
against the state, and then only on conviction and attainder.
25. That a well regulated militia is the proper and natural
defence of a free government.
26. That standing armies are dangerous to liberty, and ought
not to be raised or kept up without consent of the legis-
lature.
27. That in all cases and at all times the military ought to be
under strict subordination to, and control of, the civil power.
28. That no soldier ought to be quartered in any house in
time of peace without the consent of the owner, and in time of
war in such manner only as the legislature shall direct.
29. That no person except regular soldiers, mariners and
marines, in the service of this state, or militia when in actual
service, ought in any case to be subject to, or punishable by
martial law.
30. That the independency and uprightness of judges are
essential to the impartial administration of justice, and a great
security to the rights and liberties of the people; wherefore, the
chancellor and all judges ought to hold commissions during
good behaviour; and the said chancellor and judges shall be
removed for misbehaviour, on conviction in a court of law, and
may be removed by the governor, upon the address of the gene-
ral assembly; Provided, that two-thirds of all the members of
each house concur in such address. That salaries, liberal, but
not profuse, ought to be secured to the chancellor and the judges
during the continuance of their commissions, in such manner
and at such time, as the legislature shall hereafter direct, upon
consideration of the circumstances of this state. No chancel-
lor or judge ought to hold any other office, civil or military, or
receive fees or perquisites of any kind.
31. That a long continuance in the first executive depart-
ments of power or trust, is dangerous to liberty; a rotation,
therefore, in those departments, is one of the best securities of
permanent freedom.
32. That no person ought to hold, at the same time, more
than one office of profit, nor ought any person in public trust to
receive any present from any foreign prince or state, or from the
United States, or any of them, without the approbation of this
state.
33. That, as it is the duty of every man to worship God in
such manner as he thinks most acceptable to him, all persons
professing the Christian religion are equally entitled to protec-
tion in their religious liberty; wherefore, no person ought by
any law to be molested in his person or estate, on account of his
religious persuasion or profession, or for his religious practice;
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