 This applies to Arkansas, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, where the requirement was challenged and overturned in "Voswinkel v. Hunt" (1979), South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas, debatably.A unanimous 1961 U.S. Supreme Court decision in "Torcaso v. Watkins" held that the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the federal Constitution override these state requirements, so they are not enforced.The no religious test clause of the U.S. constitution states that "no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States."