proven his qualification as a voter.[17] A Federal law shall establish the distinction between settlement and temporary residence, and shall at the same time make the regulations to which Swiss temporary residents shall be subjected as to their political rights and their civil rights. A Federal law shall make provision as to the cost of the care and burial of indigent persons of one Canton who may become sick or die in another Canton. Freedom of conscience and belief shall be inviolable; no one shall be compelled to take part in any religious society or in any religious instruction, or to undertake any religious act, nor shall he be punished in any way whatever for his religious views. The person who exercises the parents’ or guardians’ authority has the right, conformably to the principles above stated, to regulate the religious education of children up to the close of their sixteenth year. The exercise of civil or political rights shall not be abridged by any provisions or conditions whatever of an ecclesiastical or religious kind. Religious views shall not absolve from the performance of civil duties. No person is bound to pay taxes of which the proceeds are specifically appropriated to the expenses of any religious society to which he does not belong. The free exercise of religious worship is guaranteed within the limits of morality and public order; the Cantons and the Confederation may take suitable measures for the preservation of public order and of peace between the members of different religious bodies, as well as against any interference in the rights of citizens or of the state by church authorities. Contests in public and private law which arise out of the formation or the division of religious bodies may be brought by appeal before the competent Federal authorities. No bishopric shall be created upon Swiss territory without the consent of the Confederation; neither the order of the Jesuits nor the societies affiliated with them shall be suffered in any part of Switzerland, and all participation of their members either in church or school is prohibited; this prohibition may be extended also by Federal ordinance to other religious orders whose action is dangerous to the state, or disturbs the peace between sects. The establishment of new convents or religious orders or the restoration of those which have been suppressed is forbidden. The civil status and the keeping of records thereof is subject to the civil authority (taking it away from the clergy, who were formerly the custodians). The disposition of burial-places shall belong to the civil authorities; they shall take care that every deceased person may be decently interred (to prevent denial of burial by the church). The right of marriage is placed within the protection of the