...Declaration of Rights shows that religious liberty had not only a secular but also a religious purpose: That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience.16 Virginia is saying that it protects free exercise of religion not...

...determined. We remonstrate against the said Bill, 1. Because we hold it for fundamental and undeniable truth, "that religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator...directed only by reason and conviction, not by force Source: Gaillard Hunt, ed., The Writings of James Mndison (New York: GP Putnam's Sons, 1906). 335 or...

...moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. Section 16 That religion, or the duty which we owe to our...conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practise Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other. 184 Appendix 3 The Constitution...

...that the sixteenth section of the Virginia bill of rights declared, when adopted in its final form, that religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...according to the dictates of conscience; and that it is 93 the mutual duty of all to practise Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other.70...

...Declaration of Rights contained a generous, though basically conventional, protection for dissenters: That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore, that all men should enjoy the fullest toleration in the exercise of religion, according to the dictates...

...remonstrate against the said bill — Because we hold it for 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...

...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,...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...

...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...

...argument in the famous "Memorial and Remonstrance" echoes the Virginia Declaration of Rights in asserting that "religion or the duty which we owe to our creator...by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ... [it] must be left to the conscience of every man. ... It is the duty of every man to render to...

...absolute measure of protection apart from mere governmental neutrality. 160 Tho Virginia proposal read: That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men have an equal, natural, and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates...