Home rule -- Ireland; Ireland -- Economic conditions; Land tenure -- Ireland
"4. The powers of the Irish Legislature shall not extend to the
making of any law--
"(1) Respecting the establishment or endowment of religion,
whether directly or indirectly, or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof; or
"(2) Imposing any disability, or conferring any privilege,
advantage, or benefit, on account of religious belief, or raising
or appropriating directly or indirectly, save as heretofore, any
public revenue for any religious purpose, or for the benefit of
the holder of any religious office as such; or
"(3) Diverting the property, or, without its consent, altering the
constitution of any religious body; or
"(4) Abrogating or prejudicially affecting the right to establish
or maintain any place of denominational education, or any
denominational institution or charity; or
"(5) Whereby there may be established or endowed out of public
funds any theological professorship, or any university or college
in which the conditions set out in the University of Dublin Tests
Acts, 1873, are not observed; or
"(6) Prejudicially affecting the right of any child to attend a
school receiving public money without attending the religious
instruction at that school; or
"(7) Directly or indirectly imposing any disability or conferring
any privilege, benefit, or advantage upon any subject of the Crown
on account of his parentage or place of birth, or of the place
where any part of his business is carried on, or upon any
corporation or institution constituted or existing by virtue of
the law of some part of the Queen's dominions, and carrying on
operations in Ireland, on account of the persons by whom or in
whose favour, or the place in which any of its operations are
carried on; or
"(8) Whereby any person may be deprived of life, liberty, or
property without due process of law in accordance with settled
principles and precedents, or may be denied the equal protection
of the laws, or whereby private property may be taken without just
compensation; or
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