 | Caspar Thomas Hopkins - 1872 - 324 Seiten
...their public teachers, and contracting with them for their support and maintenance." 3. Virginia says: "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... | |
 | Caspar Thomas Hopkins - 1873 - 396 Seiten
...public teachers, and contracting with them for their support and maintenance." 162. Virginia says: " 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... | |
 | 1875 - 1750 Seiten
...duty of every man to worship God in such manner as he thinks most acceptable to Him. — Md., 1867. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...by reason and conviction, not by force or violence. — Pa., 1870. " Morality and piety, rightly grounded on evangelical principles," commended. — N.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Stevens Perry (bp. of Iowa.) - 1874 - 572 Seiten
...by the 16th 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... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - 1876 - 692 Seiten
...be exempted, upon payment of an equivalent to employ another to bear arms in his stead. " 20th. Thit religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...and therefore all men have an equal, natural, and tmalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience, and that... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | James Trapier Ringgold - 2003 - 346 Seiten
...of religious worship which to them shall seem most agreeable to the revealed will of God. VIRGINIA. 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 ; it... | |
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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 ; and, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according... 
