 | United States. Congress. House - 282 pagine
...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 - 1813 - 322 pagine
...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... | |
 | David Bailie Warden - 1816 - 230 pagine
...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... | |
 | United States federal convention - 1819 - 524 pagine
...an equivalent to employ another to bear arms in his stead. 1 ' 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,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1826 - 844 pagine
...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... | |
 | James Madison - 1828 - 16 pagine
...— 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,... | |
 | 1834 - 504 pagine
...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... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1833 - 800 pagine
...which, they believe, their accountability to him requires. It has been truly said, that " religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and the manner of...it, can be dictated only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence." Mr. Locke himself, who did not doubt the right of government to interfere... | |
 | James Stuart - 1833 - 632 pagine
...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,... | |
 | Virginia - 1833 - 604 pagine
...virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 10. 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... | |
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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... 
