 | Frankie Hutton, Barbara Straus Reed - 1995 - 268 σελίδες
...Problem" and the Press David A. copeland Because we hold it for a "fundamental and undeniable truth," that religion, or the duty which we owe to our creator,...it, can be directed only by reason and conviction and not by force or violence. The religion, then, of every man, must be left to the conviction and... | |
 | V. Norskov Olsen - 1996 - 116 σελίδες
...means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. Sec. 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entiUed to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that it is the... | |
 | St. George Tucker, William Blackstone - 2000 - 3301 σελίδες
...arms, ought to be exempted upon payment of an equivalent to employanotherto bear arms in his stead. XX. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our creator,...it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, notbyforce orviolence, and therefore all men have an equal, natural, and unalienable right to the free... | |
 | Daniel C. Palm - 1997 - 230 σελίδες
...Declaration of Rights shows that religious liberty had not only a secular but also a religious purpose: That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience.16 Virginia is saying that it protects free exercise of religion not... | |
 | Richard C. Sinopoli - 1996 - 456 σελίδες
...determined. We remonstrate against the said Bill, 1. Because we hold it for fundamental and undeniable truth, "that religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator...directed only by reason and conviction, not by force Source: Gaillard Hunt, ed., The Writings of James Mndison (New York: GP Putnam's Sons, 1906). 335 or... | |
 | Lance Banning - 1995 - 566 σελίδες
...Declaration of Rights contained a generous, though basically conventional, protection for dissenters: That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore, that all men should enjoy the fullest toleration in the exercise of religion, according to the dictates... | |
 | Mary C. Segers, Ted G. Jelen - 1998 - 216 σελίδες
...remonstrate against the said bill — Because we hold it for a "fundamental and undeniable truth." that religion, or the duty which we owe to our creator,...by 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... | |
 | Alonzo Trévier Jones - 1998 - 384 σελίδες
...remonstrate against the said bill:— "i. Because we hold it for a fundamental and undeniable truth 'that religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...by 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... | |
 | jeffrey s gurock - 1998 - 516 σελίδες
...had written the declaration, had proposed as the sixteenth section that religion, or the duty that we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging...conviction, not by force or violence; and, therefore, that all men should enjoy the fullest toleration in the exercise of religion, according to the dictates... | |
 | Bette Novit Evans - 1997 - 308 σελίδες
...superior to the obligations of citizenship: Because we hold it for a "fundamental and undeniable truth" that religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...it, can be directed only by reason and conviction and not by force or violence. That religion, then of every man, must be let to the conviction and conscience... | |
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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... 
