 | Phillip E. Hammond, David W. Machacek, Eric Michael Mazur - 2004 - 179 páginas
...We remonstrate against the said Bill, 1. Because we hold it for a fundamental and undeniable truth, "that Religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator...reason and conviction, not by force or violence." [Virginia Declaration of Rights, art. 16] The Religion then of every man must be left to the conviction... | |
 | F. Forrester Church - 2004 - 160 páginas
...We remonstrate against the said bill: i. Because we hold it for a fundamental and undeniable truth, "that religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator...reason and conviction, not by force or violence." The religion, then, of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it... | |
 | Michael Farris - 2005 - 207 páginas
...Christians." 54 Somehow he turned a blind eye to the last section of the Virginia Declaration, which states: That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practise Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other. Moreover, Butler fails to mention... | |
 | Thomas L. Krannawitter, Daniel C. Palm - 2005 - 247 páginas
...the Virginia Declaration of Rights, Madison argued that it is a "fundamental and undeniable truth" that "[r]eligion or the duty which we owe to our Creator...reason and conviction, not by force or violence." Madison continued: The Religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of... | |
 | William A. Galston - 2005 - 205 páginas
...We remonstrate against the said Bill, 1. Because we hold it for a fundamental and undeniable truth, "that Religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator...reason and conviction, not by force or violence." The Religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Bucar, Barbra Barnett - 2005 - 391 páginas
...coercive force in the assimilation of religion. It is, said Madison, a fundamental and undeniable truth That religion or the duty which we owe to our creator...by reason and conviction, not by force or violence. The religion, then, of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it... | |
 | Lorenzo de Zavala - 2005 - 392 páginas
...remonstrate against the said bill, — 1st. Because, We hold it for a fundamental and undeniable truth, "that religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...reason and conviction, not by force or violence." The religion, then, of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it... | |
 | Bob Gingrich - 2006 - 260 páginas
...moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. That Religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...dictates of conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of ail to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity, towards each other. Mason's inclusion of... | |
 | George Allen - 2006 - 212 páginas
...of the great bulwalks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments. "Article 16: That religion, or the duty which we owe to our...entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience ..." Those are the words of freedom, and of the inherent rights to which... | |
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That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according... 
