...strengthened the Virginia Constitution (on which the US Constitution was modeled) by adding the clause that "all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience." Mitsuo Fuchida Japan • December 7, 194 1 As 360 Japanese fighter...

...Declaration of Rights of the Virginia Constitution was added on a motion from James Madison. It stated that "all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience." Gewehr, 203. There are many discussions of Madison's role in composing...

...Teaching those principles was therefore unquestionably a public purpose. Article 16's preceding clause ("all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience") was not to the contrary, for "the whole relates to the rights of conscience"...

...of Jesus Christ..." He defined religion, like many others of our Founders, thus: "That religion, or duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it..." John Jay John Jay, first Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court said: "We (by the Bible) enable...

...that could be taken away. Madison, who recalled the persecution of Baptists, suggested instead that "all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of Conscience." His change of wording meant that every person had a right to worship...

...moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. That Religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of ail to practice Christian forbearance,...

...Virginia Declaration of Rights which became eventually the first amendment to the Constitution. It reads: "That religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance,...

...man nur Lehrer seiner eigenen Konfession unterstützen mußte92. Die Beschränkung des Abgeordneten85 »That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, aecording to the dictates of conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practise Christian...

...moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. That Religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...all men are equally entitled to the free exercise ofreli> gion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice...

...touching religion, or to infringe the rights of conscience." New Hampshire Proposal, June 21, 1788. 2. "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...