 | Catharine Cookson - 2001 - 288 Seiten
...are included below in greater detail: i. 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 must... | |
 | Steven D. Smith - 2001 - 250 Seiten
...religious views. Here is Madison's primary argument: [W]e 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 must... | |
 | Azizah al-Hibri, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Charles C. Haynes - 2001 - 212 Seiten
...Sometimes they have "been seen upholding the thrones of political tyranny." In contrast, he argues, "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." Only a freely chosen, disestablished... | |
 | Kermit L. Hall - 2001 - 806 Seiten
..."Religjm," 71 GEO. I..J 1519, 1510 (1983). For example, the Virginia Bill of Rights defined "religion" as "the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it." Virginia Bill of Rights of 1776, f 16, reprinted IN i FEOERAL ANO STATE CoNSTITUTlONS, supra note... | |
 | Wolfgang Fikentscher, Achim R. Fochem - 2002 - 336 Seiten
...moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. Sec. 16. 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... | |
 | Theodore L. Johnson - 2002 - 600 Seiten
...to be exempted upon payment of an equivalent to employ another to bear arms in his stead. Twentieth, 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,... | |
 | A. L. David - 2003 - 158 Seiten
...make them secondclass citizens ... for my Temple shall be called 'A House of Prayer for All People'. 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 . . . - Patrick Henry God changes... | |
 | Edwin S. Gaustad, Mark A. Noll - 2003 - 652 Seiten
...We remonstrate against the said Bill, 1. 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 must... | |
 | Alan Mittleman - 2003 - 350 Seiten
...among established Christian denominations. 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 must... | |
 | 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, 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, and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to... 
