 | 1876 - 326 pages
...regularly convej^ed to them. Clause 18 of the Bill of Rights, a portion of the organic law, declares "That religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...not by force or violence; and,, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion according to the dictates of conscience; and... | |
 | Virginia. General Assembly - Virginia - 1876 - 88 pages
...justice, moderation, temperance and virtue, and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 18. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...not by force or violence ; and, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion according to the dictates of conscience ; and... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1876 - 536 pages
...moderation, temperance, frugality and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 16. 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... | |
 | William O. Bateman - Constitutional law - 1876 - 416 pages
...construed as exceptions to certain specifiedpowers, or as inserted merely for greater caution. 'IV. That religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, and not by force and violence; and, therefore, all men have a natural, equal, and unalienable right... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - Constitutional law - 1876 - 664 pages
...arms in his stead. " 20. '1'hat religion, or the duty which we owe to onr Creator, and the manlier of discharging it, can be directed only by reason...and therefore all men have an equal, natural, and mnlirnahle right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience ; and that... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1876 - 650 pages
...temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. " Religion 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 it, according to the dictates of conscience ; and it is... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1876 - 652 pages
...temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. " Religion 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 it, according to the dictates of conscience ; and it is... | |
 | Virginia - Law - 1877 - 476 pages
...temperance and virtue, and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 18. That religion, or tLe duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of...not by force or violence; and, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion according to the dic'tates of conscience; and... | |
 | Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - Law reports, digests, etc - 1890 - 658 pages
...as an amendment to the constitution of the United States the declaration in a bill of rights, that 'All men have an equal, natural, and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience,' the legislature of that state substantially enacted the statute of... | |
 | Ronald J. Pestritto, Thomas G. West - Political Science - 2003 - 304 pages
...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,...conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience."38... | |
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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... 
