| John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gillett Pond - 1887 - 764 páginas
...Convention, therefore, recommended to Congress the following amendment on this subject : " 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 have an... | |
| Thomas Armitage - 1887 - 1042 páginas
...these was a Bill of Rights, of which the following was the 20th section, namely : ' The 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 have an... | |
| Garrett Ward Sheldon - 2003 - 324 páginas
..."Memorial and Remonstrance" echoes the Virginia Declaration of Rights in asserting 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 ... [it] must be left to the conscience... | |
| Major Garrett, Tim J. Penny - 1998 - 239 páginas
...the fabric? — GEORGE WASHINGTON Farewell Address to Congress September 19, 1796 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... | |
| Steven D. Smith - 2001 - 250 páginas
...Madison's primary argument: [W]e hold it for a fundamental and undeniable truth, "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." The Religion then of every man... | |
| Azizah al-Hibri, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Charles C. Haynes - 2001 - 212 páginas
...they have "been seen upholding the thrones of political tyranny." In contrast, he argues, "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." Only a freely chosen, disestablished... | |
| Catharine Cookson - 2001 - 288 páginas
...in greater detail: i. Because we hold it for a fundamental and undeniable truth, "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." The religion then of every man... | |
| Kermit L. Hall - 2001 - 806 páginas
..."Religjm," 71 GEO. I..J 1519, 1510 (1983). For example, the Virginia Bill of Rights defined "religion" as "the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it." Virginia Bill of Rights of 1776, f 16, reprinted IN i FEOERAL ANO STATE CoNSTITUTlONS, supra note... | |
| Preston D. Graham - 2002 - 332 páginas
...virtuous by wholesome laws, equally extending to every individual. But that the duty which we owe our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can only...directed by reason and conviction; and is nowhere cognizable but at the tribunal of the universal Judge. Therefore we ask no ecclesiastical establishment... | |
| Wolfgang Fikentscher, Achim R. Fochem - 2002 - 336 páginas
...frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. Sec. 16. 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... | |
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