 | Howard J. Wiarda - 2007 - 302 σελίδες
...various state constitutions of the time. The Virginia Declaration of Rights, for example, proclaims that "religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...equally entitled to the free exercise of religion. . . ." 29 Thus, while a great many of America's founders disagreed over the extent to which government... | |
 | Sis. Sheila G. Arnold, Rev. Dr. Antonio Q. Arnold - 2008 - 370 σελίδες
...VIRGINIA CONSTITUTION Article I, Section 16 Free exercise of religion; no establishment of religion. That religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...force or violence; and therefore, all men are equally entitle to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that it is mutual... | |
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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 ; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according... 
