 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 628 pages
...are persuaded of my fidelity to those duties, the discharge of them becomes more and more pleasing. Believing with you that religion is a matter which...faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 634 pages
...are persuaded of my fidelity to those duties, the discharge of them becomes more and more pleasing. Believing with you that religion is a matter which...faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - Education - 1914 - 1024 pages
...and state distinctly separate. Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to the Pany Baptist Association, wrote: "Believing with you that religion is a matter which...account to none other for his faith or his worship; thnt the legislative powers of government reach actions only, not opinions. I contemplate with sovereign... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 696 pages
...address to him by a committee of the Danbury Baptist Association (8 id. 113), took occasion to say: " Believing with you that religion is a matter which...powers of the government (reach actions only, and not opinions/^-1 contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared... | |
 | Citizen of Massachusetts, Alfred Ellingwood Giles - Bigamy - 1882 - 80 pages
...him by a committee of the Danbury Baptist Association (8 Jeff. Works, 113), took occasion to say, " Believing with you, that religion is a matter which lies solely between a man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 1156 pages
...address to him by a committee of the Dan bury Baptist Association (8 id., 113), took occasion to say: "Believing with you that religion is a matter which...actions only, and not opinions, — I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should... | |
 | Education - 1885 - 546 pages
...the duty which we owe to our Creator, is not within the province of civil government." '• Believing that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God and that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship ; that the legislative power of... | |
 | Utah - 1886 - 444 pages
...which we owe the Greater, is not within the province of civil government." Jefferson says : Believing that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, and that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of... | |
 | West Virginia Bar Association - Bar associations - 1926 - 332 pages
...Supreme Court of the United States in the Reynolds case said in regard to Congress' controlling opinions: "That the legislative powers of the Government reach actions only and not opions. Congress was deprived of all legislative power over mere opinion but was left free to reach... | |
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... government reach actions only, and not opinions, — I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ' make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the... 
