In the minds of the drafters of the 1905 law, this essential text of the secularism regime establishes three principles: freedom of conscience, that is to say the right to believe or not to believe; the neutrality of the State, that is to say the abstention of the State in matters of religion, provided that it respects public order; and freedom of worship, that is to say the possibility now guaranteed by the right to live one’s worship.
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