| William Stevens Perry - 1874 - 598 Seiten
...by the 10th Article of the Declaration of Rights, it is provided in the words following, viz. — " That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...conviction, not by force or violence, and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience ; and... | |
| Virginia. General Assembly - 1876 - 88 Seiten
...justice, moderation, temperance and virtue, and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 18. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...not by force or violence ; and, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion according to the dictates of conscience ; and... | |
| 1876 - 326 Seiten
...regularly convej^ed to them. Clause 18 of the Bill of Rights, a portion of the organic law, declares "That religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...not by force or violence; and,, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion according to the dictates of conscience; and... | |
| Hezekiah Niles - 1876 - 536 Seiten
...moderation, temperance, frugality and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...conviction, not by force or violence, and, therefore that all men should enjoy the fullest toleration in the exercise of religion, according to the dictates... | |
| William O. Bateman - 1876 - 416 Seiten
...construed as exceptions to certain specifiedpowers, or as inserted merely for greater caution. 'IV. That religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, and not by force and violence; and, therefore, all men have a natural, equal, and unalienable right... | |
| George Bancroft - 1876 - 652 Seiten
...temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. " Religion 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 it, according to the dictates of conscience ; and it is... | |
| George Bancroft - 1876 - 650 Seiten
...temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. " Religion 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 it, according to the dictates of conscience ; and it is... | |
| Virginia - 1877 - 476 Seiten
...temperance and virtue, and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 18. That religion, or tLe duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of...not by force or violence; and, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion according to the dic'tates of conscience; and... | |
| Lon Cantor - 2003 - 244 Seiten
...the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power. Section 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and... | |
| Ronald J. Pestritto, Thomas G. West - 2003 - 304 Seiten
...the Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776) comes this classic statement of the right of conscience: "religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience."38... | |
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