 Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or forbidding the free exercise thereof, was intended to allow every one under the jurisdiction of the United States to entertain such notions respecting his relations to his Maker and...  New Light on Mormonism - Page 173by Ellen E. Dickinson - 1885 - 272 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Richard Swainson Fisher - Geography - 1852 - 752 pages
...United States no national or established religion. It is expressly provided, (Amend, to Const. Art. I.) that " Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion or prohibiting the exercise thereof. The " Baptists" are the most numerous in every portion of the Union, but on a diversity... | |
 | RICHARD S. FISHER - 1853 - 638 pages
...United States no national or established religion. It is expressly provided, (Amend, to Const. Art. I.) that " Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion or prohibiting the exercise thereof. The " Baptists" are the most numerous in every portion of the Union, but; on a diversity... | |
 | Cornelius S. Cartee - Physical geography - 1855 - 348 pages
...national or established religion in the United States ; for it is expressly declared in the Constitution, that " Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the exercise thereof." Every citizen is free to choose his own faith ; but the mass of the people adhere... | |
 | Cornelius Sowle Cartée - Physical geography - 1861 - 356 pages
...national or established religion in the United States ; for it is expressly declared in the Constitution, that " Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the exercise thereof." Every citizen is free to choose his own faith; but the mass of the people adhere... | |
 | Samuel Seabury - History - 1861 - 322 pages
...CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION. THE first article of the amended Constitution of the United States declares that " Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion or prohibiting the exercise thereof." This declaration is justly dear to the hearts of the American people. It secures... | |
 | 1866 - 694 pages
...independent, the root of all these traditional evils was cut away by the amendment which prescribes that " Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or preventing the free exercise thereof." The Union of Church and . State, and its logical result, persecution... | |
 | Law - 1890 - 548 pages
...sect, but is distinguishable from the latter. The first amendment to the Constitution, in declaring that Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or forbidding the free exercise thereof, was intended to allow every one under the jurisdiction of the... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1875 - 724 pages
...Firxi Xtftxi'm. J/«r<7io, 17«). 01' HIP Rlirlit of Conscience. Freedom of the 1'rcss, kc. Лит. T. Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the 1'ree exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people... | |
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