The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 17Issued under the auspices of the Thomas Jefferson memorial association of the United States, 1904 - United States |
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Page ii - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God...
Page 396 - that the laws of the several States, .except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States, in cases where they apply.
Page 364 - States and of amendments thereto, they constituted a general government for special purposes, delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving, each State to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force...
Page 370 - States (not merely in cases made federal) but in all cases whatsoever, by laws made, not with their consent, but by others against their consent: That this would be to surrender the form of government we have chosen, and to live under one deriving its powers from its own will, and not from our authority...
Page 93 - But if any officer shall break his parole by leaving the district so assigned him, or any other prisoner shall escape from the limits of his cantonment, after they shall have been designated to him, such individual, officer, or other prisoner, shall forfeit so much of the benefit of this article as provides for his liberty on parole or in cantonment.
Page iv - Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should " make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between church...
Page 366 - An Act concerning aliens," is contrary to the Constitution, one amendment to which has provided that " no person shall be deprived of liberty without due process of law...
Page iv - ... that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion, and to restrain the profession or propagation of 176 Virginia Statute of Religious Liberty principles on supposition of their ill tendency, is a dangerous fallacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty...