...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...