Part II
Section 5: Churches established in accordance with this amendment shall retain the right to worship and proselytize without undue regulation of the United States or the several states and thereby shall have the power to:
(01) Acquire, use and convey real property;
(02) Acquire, use and convey chattel property subject to such taxation as may be determined by law;
(03) Conduct lawful commerce subject to such taxation as may be determined by law;
(04) Borrow money;
(05) Exercise freedom of the press in both print and electronic forms under the complete editorial control of the trustees of the church and such persons as they may designate without restrictions as to the number of press enterprises that may be operated;
(06) Petition the government of the United States and the governments of the several states for redress of grievances;
(07) Petition the electors for any office of public trust under the United States and any of the several states;
(08) Peaceably assemble its members and establish visual and audible displays in such places that are procured, established or otherwise maintained by tax revenue within the United States and which are open to the general public;
(09) Conduct, in a manner determined by the bylaws of the church and under such regulations as the trustees thereof may devise, lotteries and other games of chance in any state wherein the government thereof conducts such games;
(10) Acquire, hold and transfer stock in any corporation that may be chartered by the United States or by any one of the several states subject to such taxation as may be determined by law;
(11) Establish for-profit, not-for-profit and non-profit corporations that are necessary and proper for exercising any of the foregoing powers and to peaceably have the full and absolute use of all real property owned by the church or by any corporation wholly established or owned thereby for the purpose of worship, proselytism and providing for the social welfare of the American People.
(12) Exempt from taxation all property and income owned wholly by the church and by any corporation that is wholly established and owned by the church and exempt from taxation the income of any other corporation that may accrue to the church as a consequence of owning shares of stock therein.
Section 6: No employee, member, clergy, trustee, director or officer of any church established in accordance with this amendment or any corporation that is established or owned wholly or in part by any such church shall receive any portion of the revenue, income or property of such church or corporation except as a social welfare benefit or as reasonable compensation for services rendered and no compensation for any individual person shall exceed the value of one-hundred thousand dollars per annum.
The trustees of any church established in accordance with this amendment may require the employees of the church and the employees, directors and officers of any corporation established by the church or by any corporation, the majority of which is owned by the church, to be a member of the church or otherwise adhere to the doctrine thereof without consequence of any law.
The judicial power of the United States and the judicial power of each state shall extend to suits in law or equity within their respective jurisdictions for which a church or any corporation established or owned wholly or in part thereby or any employee, member, clergy, trustee, director or officer thereof shall be a party, but no employee, member, clergy, trustee, director or officer of any such church or corporation shall be questioned in regard to the doctrine of the church except in a time and place which the trustees of the church may determine.
Section 7: The American People and the corporations established thereby shall retain the right to contribute money to the churches that are established in accordance with this amendment for the purpose of securing a social welfare benefit for the contributors and such persons as they may designate and may in any year for which such contributions are made receive credit for any tax or fee that may otherwise be due as a consequence of any law implemented to provide a comparable benefit for the common welfare of the United States or any one of the several states.
Section 8: No provision in this amendment shall be construed to indicate or apply to any religion to the exclusion of any other.
