...not only toward a career but toward a greater purpose in life. CHAPTER TWO REVOLUTION "Religion . . . can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence. " — James Madison, explaining the Virginia Declaration of Rights, 1776 James Madison was outraged....

...Madison, who spoke for Jefferson, who was in Europe at the time.27 Madison called for liberty of worship: "All men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion according to the dictates of his conscience." In 1779, Virginia stopped the taxation that supported the Episcopal...

...General Assembly" (pp. 386-387). SECTION 16. FREE EXERCISE OF RELIGION; NO ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGION 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,...

...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,...entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practise Christian forbearance,...

...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...

...employees is to violate the freedom of the organization to exercise its religion. James Madison said 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...reference to the Deity were somewhat ameliorated by what he did successfully include in that paragraph: "Religion, or the duty which we owe to our CREATOR,...of discharging it, can be directed only by reason GEORGE MASON and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to...