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Title page, "A Platform of Church Discipline" The Cambridge Platform is a statement of congregational church government for the churches of colonial New England.It was written in 1648 in response to Presbyterian criticism and served as the religious constitution of Massachusetts until 1780. [1]
A general welfare clause is a section that appears in many constitutions and in some charters and statutes that allows that the governing body empowered by the document to enact laws to promote the general welfare of the people, which is sometimes worded as the public welfare. In some countries, it has been used as a basis for legislation ...
Each church body had one representative on the council for every 100,000 confirmed members or one-third fraction thereof, with the proviso that each church body would have at least one representative. [1] The NLC originally had no formal constitution other than a list of stated purposes. In 1926 a set of revised regulations was adopted.
Catholic Social Services Australia (CSSA) is a body that seeks to advance the social service ministry of the Catholic Church and consists of member welfare organisations. [1] It was established as a commission of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference until it underwent consolidation in 2020.
The Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches (CCEO) is the 1990 codification of the common portions of the Canon Law for the 23 of the 24 sui iuris Churches in the Catholic Church. It is divided into 30 titles and has a total of 1540 canons, [ 16 ] with an introductory section of preliminary canons.
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A Church Order usually begins with a dogmatic part in which the agreement of the State Church with the general Lutheran confessions is set forth with more or less detail (Credenda); then it follows regulations concerning the liturgy, the appointment of church officers, organization of church government, discipline, marriage, schools, the pay of church and school officials, the administration ...
The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare had disposed of surplus property by conveying it, without charge, to a church-related college. Plaintiffs sought standing as taxpayers, and alternatively as citizens, claiming that the conveyance of property injured their right to a government that does not establish a religion.