 | 2007 - 360 strani
...others; but not from ourselves"96 and, a little later on in his Notes on the State of Virginia, that "[t]he legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others."9- Jefferson mustered this argument in support of his calls for religious freedom... | |
 | Alec G. Hargreaves, John Kelsay, Sumner B. Twiss - 2007 - 224 strani
...conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God." Accordingly, the "legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it [should do] me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods,... | |
 | Edward J. Larson - 2007 - 349 strani
...opponents. In it, for example, he defended his position on the separation of church and state by observing, "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god.... | |
 | Michael Thompson - 2007 - 312 strani
...Thomas Jefferson had iterated the same idea somewhat more colorfully in Notes on the State of Virginia: "the legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say that there are twenty gods, or no... | |
 | Jon Butler, Grant Wacker, Randall Balmer - 2007 - 538 strani
...point often, but nowhere more forcefully than in his only book, Notes on the State of Virginia (1785). The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury to say that there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither... | |
 | Matthew S. Holland - 2007 - 340 strani
...environment. Jefferson puts it most memorably in his only published book, Notes on the State of Virginia, The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God.... | |
 | Paul R. Abramson - 2011 - 185 strani
...rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God. The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty Gods or no God.... | |
 | Thomas Banchoff - 2007 - 352 strani
...which we adhere place us on common ground. As for religious beliefs, Thomas Jefferson put it this way: "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God.... | |
 | Thomas Szasz - 2011 - 293 strani
...criminal laws, does religious coercion become a problem, indeed a crime. As Jefferson memorably put it: "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God.... | |
 | Sheila Suess Kennedy - 2007 - 257 strani
...describe him, an infidel and godless atheist) who wrote in his Notes on the State of Virginia that "the legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.... | |
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. 
