{"data":{"id":"us-mi/mich.-const.-art.-i-4","jurisdiction":"us-mi","citation":"Mich. Const. art. I, § 4","heading":"Freedom of worship and religious belief; appropriations.","body":"Sec. 4.\n\nEvery person shall be at liberty to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience. No person shall be compelled to attend, or, against his consent, to contribute to the erection or support of any place of religious worship, or to pay tithes, taxes or other rates for the support of any minister of the gospel or teacher of religion. No money shall be appropriated or drawn from the treasury for the benefit of any religious sect or society, theological or religious seminary; nor shall property belonging to the state be appropriated for any such purpose. The civil and political rights, privileges and capacities of no person shall be diminished or enlarged on account of his religious belief.","path":["Michigan Constitution","Article I"],"source_url":"https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=mcl-Article%20I%20%C2%A7%204","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:31Z","sha256":"6f75d0330460442641c3316ca8f12c3e684981305f86275307930c104c62d711","source_id":"us-mi","stale":false,"prev":"us-mi/mich.-const.-art.-i-3","next":"us-mi/mich.-const.-art.-i-5","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}