 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - 1972 - 890 Seiten
...state so powerful, so bent on injustice as the present state educational laws. 15. Because, finally, "the equal right of every citizen to the free exercise...held by the same tenure with all our other rights. If we weigh its importance, it cannot lie less dear to us; If we consult the declaration of those rights... | |
 | Merrill D. Peterson, Robert C. Vaughan - 1988 - 392 Seiten
...that he himself had written, Madison completed the "Memorial" by powerfully restating its main theme. "The equal right of every citizen to the free exercise of his religion," he concluded, "is held by the same tenure with all our other rights." Either then, we must say that... | |
 | William Roscoe Estep - 1990 - 240 Seiten
...a fair appeal to the latter will reverse the sentence against our liberties. 1 5. Because finally, "the equal right of every citizen to the free exercise...held by the same tenure with all our other rights. If we recur to its origin, it is equally the gift of nature; if we weigh its importance, it cannot... | |
 | Arlin M. Adams, Charles J. Emmerich - 1990 - 200 Seiten
...that a fair appeal to the latter will reverse the sentence against our liberties. 15. Because finally, "the equal right of every citizen to the free exercise...held by the same tenure with all our other rights. If we recur to its origin, it is equally the gift of nature; if we weigh its importance, it cannot... | |
 | Luis E. Lugo - 1995 - 290 Seiten
...Madison (according to Riemer) objected to Patrick Henry's bill of 1776 because it stood in opposition to "the equal right of every citizen to the free exercise...Religion according to the dictates of conscience," wasn't Madison recognizing that conscience might lead different people to greater or lesser exertions... | |
 | Paul Kurtz - 428 Seiten
...freethinkers. James Madison, a principle author of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, said that it was "the equal right of every citizen to the free exercise...religion according to the dictates of conscience." He explicitly argued: "Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity in... | |
 | Lance Banning - 1995 - 264 Seiten
...that a fair appeal to the latter will reverse the sentence against our liberties. 15. Because finally, "the equal right of every citizen to the free exercise...held by the same tenure with all our other rights. If we recur to its origin, it is equally the gift of nature; if we weigh its importance, it cannot... | |
 | J. F. Maclear - 1995 - 534 Seiten
...of the Representatives or of the Counties, will be that of the people. . . . 15. Because, finally, "the equal right of every citizen to the free exercise...held by the same tenure with all our other rights. If we recur to its origin, it is equally the gift of nature; if we weigh its importance, it cannot... | |
 | Richard Vetterli, Gary C. Bryner - 1996 - 294 Seiten
...secular arm to extinguish Religious discord, by proscribing all difference in Religious opinions. . . . The equal right of every citizen to the free exercise...held by the same tenure with all our other rights. If we recur to its origin, it is equally the gift of nature; if we weigh its importance, it cannot... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, James Madison - 1995 - 730 Seiten
...that a fair appeal to the latter will reverse the sentence against our liberties. 15. Because finally, "the equal right of every citizen to the free exercise...held by the same tenure with all our other rights. If we recur to its origin, it is equally the gift of nature; if we weigh its importance, it cannot... | |
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the equal right of every citizen to the free exercise of his religion, according to the dictates of conscience," is held by the same tenure with all our other rights. If we recur to its origin, it is equally the gift of nature; if we weigh its importance,... 
