 | 1878 - 530 strani
...Thus the court was equally divided, and, of course, the decree * The article ia in these words: — " That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator...and therefore all men are equally entitled to the tree exercise of religion according to the dictates of conscience ; and that it is the mutual duty... | |
 | ALLEN THORNDIKE RICE - 1879 - 718 strani
...subordination to and governed by the civil power. 13. That no free government or tho blessing of liberty can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence...by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 14. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be... | |
 | 1879 - 736 strani
...subordination to and governed by the civil power. 18. That no free government or the blessing of liberty can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence...by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 14. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be... | |
 | Bernard Janin Sage - 1881 - 656 strani
...preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, frugality and virtue, and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 16....by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; ana therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates... | |
 | Sydney Howard Gay - 1884 - 368 strani
...arguments, taking for a starting-point the assertion of the Bill of Rights, " that religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging...reason and conviction, not by force or violence." It is not at all improbable that many signed this remonstrance, not so much because they believed it... | |
 | Sydney Howard Gay - 1884 - 380 strani
...arguments taking for a starting-point the assertion of the Bill of Rights, " that religion, or the duty vfe owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging...reason and conviction, not by force or violence." It is not at all improbable that many signed this remonstrance, not so much because they believed it... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1408 strani
...either as exceptions to certain specified powers, or as inserted merely for greater caution. I;IV. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...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... | |
 | 1886 - 878 strani
...be found in Niles' collection, called the " Principles and Acts of the Bevolution," 124. It declares that religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...be directed only by reason and conviction, not by form or violence, and that therefore all men should enjoy the fullest toleration in the exercise of... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis, Franklin S. Richards - 1886 - 78 strani
...conscience." Virginia and North Carolina used a greater amplitude of expression. Both of them said : " That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conscience, not by force and violence ; and therefore all men have an equal, natural, and inalienable... | |
 | John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gillett Pond - 1887 - 764 strani
...among the twenty amendments proposed as " a declaration of rights," and put on record, the last is, " that religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...not by force or violence ; and, therefore, all men have an equal, natural, and inalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates... | |
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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... 
