That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions... Acts of the Legislature of West Virginia - Page 81by West Virginia - 1866Full view - About this book
| United States. Congress. House - United States - 1408 pages
...stand, and be best maintained, with full liberty in religious concernments : we, therefore, declare that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatever ; nor enforced, restrained, molested, or burdened in his body or goods; nor disqualified from... | |
| Thomas Armitage - Baptists - 1887 - 1042 pages
...Virginia. ' An Act to establish Religious Freedom : ' ' Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any...worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on... | |
| Jacob Harris Patton - Church and state - 1887 - 164 pages
...church edifices. The following is the text of the bill : " We the General Assembly do enact : That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any...worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on... | |
| James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - America - 1888 - 838 pages
...session the dangerous bill was defeated, and in place thereof it was enacted " that no man shall Ije compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his bodv or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on... | |
| Philip Schaff - Church and state - 1888 - 176 pages
...state-churchism and intolerance, declares: " Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly, that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any...worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on... | |
| American Historical Association - History - 1888 - 596 pages
...magnificent preamble which introduced the following act : " Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any...worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on... | |
| William Lee Miller - Religion - 2003 - 300 pages
...contributions ... for the propagation of opinions he disbelieves is sinful and tyrannical" and, in a footnote, "no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship...." Thus, Madison and sometimes Jefferson as well have been adduced mostly in support of a more thoroughgoing... | |
| Phillip E. Hammond, David W. Machacek, Eric Michael Mazur - Law - 2004 - 204 pages
...when it is permitted freely to contradict them. Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly, That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any...worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burdened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on... | |
| Philip Goff, Paul Harvey - Religion - 2004 - 404 pages
...Jefferson described his own understanding of the nature of religion, the Virginia statute provides "that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any...worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on... | |
| William F. Jr Cox - Education - 2004 - 558 pages
...entitled "A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom," states, after a lengthy philosophical preface, that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any...worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer, on... | |
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