<P> the people of this commonwealth have a right to invest their legislature with power to authorize and require, and the legislature shall, from time to time, authorize and require, the several towns, parishes, precincts, and other bodies politic, or religious societies, to make suitable provision, at their own expense, for the institution of the public worship of God, and for the support and maintenance of public Protestant teachers of piety, religion and morality, in all cases where such provision shall not be made voluntarily . And the people of this commonwealth have also a right to, and do, invest their legislature with authority to enjoin upon all the subjects an attendance upon the instructions of the public teachers aforesaid, at stated times and seasons, if there be any on whose instructions they can conscientiously and conveniently attend . (Article III) </P> <P> Since, in practice, this meant that the decision of who was taxable for a particular religion rested in the hands of the selectmen, usually Congregationalists, this system was open to abuse . It was abolished in 1833 . The intervening period is sometimes referred to as an "establishment of religion" in Massachusetts . </P> <P> The Duke of York had required that every community in his new lands of New York and New Jersey support some church, but this was more often Dutch Reformed, Quaker or Presbyterian, than Anglican . Some chose to support more than one church . He also ordained that the tax - payers were free, having paid his local tax, to choose their own church . The terms for the surrender of New Amsterdam had provided that the Dutch would have liberty of conscience, and the Duke, as an openly divine - right Catholic, was no friend of Anglicanism . The first Anglican minister in New Jersey arrived in 1698, though Anglicanism was more popular in New York . </P> <P> Connecticut had a real establishment of religion . Its citizens did not adopt a constitution at the Revolution, but rather amended their Charter to remove all references to the British Government . As a result, the Congregational Church continued to be established, and Yale College, at that time a Congregational institution, received grants from the State until Connecticut adopted a constitution in 1818 partly because of this issue . </P>

Where does it talk about separation of church and state