 | Catharine Cookson - 2001 - 288 σελίδες
...are included below in greater detail: i. 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... | |
 | Steven D. Smith - 2001 - 250 σελίδες
...religious views. Here is Madison's primary argument: [W]e 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.... It is... | |
 | Azizah al-Hibri, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Charles C. Haynes - 2001 - 212 σελίδες
...Sometimes they have "been seen upholding the thrones of political tyranny." In contrast, he argues, "Religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator...reason and conviction, not by force or violence." Only a freely chosen, disestablished faith can ground the virtue that guarantees freedom. 4. Three... | |
 | Wolfgang Fikentscher, Achim R. Fochem - 2002 - 336 σελίδες
...moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. Sec. 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our...conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practise Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other. Eine Erklärung der Rechte, gegeben... | |
 | Theodore L. Johnson - 2002 - 600 σελίδες
...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,...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... | |
 | Preston D. Graham - 2002 - 332 σελίδες
...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...entitled to the free exercise of religion according to the dictates of conscience. This declaration, however, was merely abstract, and did not stay the... | |
 | James Trapier Ringgold - 2003 - 346 σελίδες
...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,...entitled to the free exercise of religion according to the dictates of conscience ; it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love... | |
 | Ronald J. Pestritto, Thomas G. West - 2003 - 304 σελίδες
...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,...entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience."38 The town of Boston had advanced the same claim four years earlier:... | |
 | Joseph P. Hester - 2003 - 296 σελίδες
...alone. God presides over the destinies of nations." — Patrick Henry. "That religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging...entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience." — Patrick Henry (Virginia Bill of Rights, June 12, 1776). Decisions... | |
 | A. L. David - 2003 - 158 σελίδες
...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. -... | |
| |
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... 
