 | United States. Congress. House - Legislation - 282 pages
...conftrued as exceptions to certain Specified powers, or as inferted merely for greater caution. Fourth. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be direfted only by reafon and conviction, and not by force or violence, and therefore alt men have an... | |
 | John Wilson Campbell, Moses Hoge - Virginia - 1813 - 322 pages
...frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. XVI. That religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force and violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled... | |
 | David Bailie Warden - District of Columbia - 1816 - 230 pages
...delegates and representatives of Virginia holden at Williamsburgj in May 1766, it was solemnly declared : " 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 and violence ; and therefore all men are equally entitled... | |
 | United States federal convention - 1819 - 524 pages
...ought to be exempted upon payment of an equivalent to employ another to bear arms in his stead. xx. 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 have an equal, natural... | |
 | William White - 1820 - 502 pages
...state, to be laid before the convention of October, 1786 provided in the words following, viz.—" That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence, and therefore all men are... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 526 pages
...by the convention.) frugality and virtue, and by frequent recurrence u fundamental principles. 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, ш be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence, and, therefore that all... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1826 - 844 pages
...ronstrucd as exceptions to certain specified powers, or as inserted merely for greater caution. tburlh. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason anil conviction, and not by force or violence; and tlierefore all men have an equal,... | |
 | James Madison - Church and state - 1828 - 16 pages
...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,...and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not bj force or violence. The religion, then, of every man, must be... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1834 - 504 pages
...equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.' Virginia, in its constitution, says : — '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... | |
 | James Stuart - North America - 1833 - 632 pages
...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,...and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence.' The religion, then, of every man, must be... | |
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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 to... 
