 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 entitled to the free exercise of religion, according...  Religion on Trial: A Handbook with Cases, Laws, and Documentsavtor: James Jurinski - 2004 - 329 straniPredogled ni na voljo - O knjigi
 | Guy Padula - 2002 - 214 strani
...convention agreed to another proposal also written by Madison: That religion, or the duty which we owe our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be...directed only by reason and conviction, not by force and violence; and therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according... | |
 | Kermit L. Hall - 2001 - 806 strani
..."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... | |
 | Theodore L. Johnson - 2002 - 600 strani
...to be exempted upon payment of an equivalent to employ another to bear arms in his stead. Twentieth, That religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...by reason and conviction, not by force or violence, and therefore all men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion... | |
 | Wolfgang Fikentscher, Achim R. Fochem - 2002 - 336 strani
...moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. Sec. 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates... | |
 | Preston D. Graham - 2002 - 332 strani
...Constitution of the State, passed in 1776, this significant declaration. Religion or the duty we owe to the Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be...by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; And therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion according to the dictates... | |
 | Lon Cantor - 2003 - 244 strani
...the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power. Section 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates... | |
 | A. L. David - 2003 - 158 strani
...make them secondclass citizens ... for my Temple shall be called 'A House of Prayer for All People'. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...by reason and conviction, not by force or violence . . . - Patrick Henry God changes not what is a people, until they change what is in themselves. -... | |
 | James Trapier Ringgold - 2003 - 346 strani
...of religious worship which to them shall seem most agreeable to the revealed will of God. VIRGINIA. Religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion according to the dictates... | |
 | Ronald J. Pestritto, Thomas G. West - 2003 - 304 strani
...the Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776) comes this classic statement of the right of conscience: "religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates... | |
 | Edwin S. Gaustad, Mark A. Noll - 2003 - 652 strani
...late established Church of England, to the Sole, and only use of the Protestant Episcopal Church. If Religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...directed, only by reason and conviction; not by force and violence (so fully expressed in the XVI Art: of the bill of Rights, and the late Act for establishing... | |
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