| Francis Lister Hawks - 1836 - 632 σελίδες
...religion, or the duty whichlwe owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed onlj by reason and conviction, not by force or violence,...conscience ; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practise Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other." CHAPTER XIII. 1805-1816. Convention... | |
| Francis Lister Hawks - 1836 - 628 σελίδες
...the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only byreason and conviction, not by force or violence, and therefore...conscience ; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practise Christian fo> bearance, love, and charity towards each other." CHAPTER XIII. 1805-1816. Convention... | |
| Jonathan Elliot, United States. Constitutional Convention - 1836 - 692 σελίδες
...to be exempted, upon payment of an equivalent to employ another to bear arms in his stead. " 20th. 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... | |
| William White - 1836 - 408 σελίδες
...the sixteenth article of the declaration of rights, it is provided in the words following, viz. — " That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...conviction, not by force or violence, and therefore all itfen are' equally entitled to the free exercise of religion; according to the dictates of conscience... | |
| George Tucker - 1837 - 636 σελίδες
...1776, the principle of religious freedom is distinctly asserted in the last article, which declares, " that religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience.'" But the Constitution itself, passed June 29th, is silent on the subject... | |
| 1841 - 460 σελίδες
...any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 16....conscience, and that it is the mutual duty of all to practise Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other. AN AMENDED CONSTITUTION, OR FORM... | |
| Rhode Island - 1844 - 612 σελίδες
...as exceptions to certain specified powers, or as inserted merely for greater caution. ••• IV. 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... | |
| Jonathan French - 1847 - 506 σελίδες
...recurrence to fundamental principles. 16. That rnligion, or the duty which we owe *o our Creator. ;md the manner of discharging it, can be directed only...conscience, and that it is the mutual duty of all to practise Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other. AN AMENDED CONSTITUTION, OR FORM... | |
| E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1004 σελίδες
...moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. "That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practise Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other." By Article 1st of the amended... | |
| Samuel Perkins - 1848 - 494 σελίδες
...the king and parliament ; the concluding one contains these propositions, which were then novel : " That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...dictates of conscience, and that it is the mutual duty.of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each oilier." In 1830, a new... | |
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