 | Richard Panchyk, Senator John Kerry, James Baker, Nadine Strossen - 2007 - 209 pages
...which declared all religions equal under the eyes of the law. In this bill, Thomas Jefferson wrote: "Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry . . ." In 1787, the US Constitution was written. Article VI of the Constitution... | |
 | George Anastaplo - 2007 - 346 pages
...which proceeding from an approbation of their personal conduct, are an additional incitement to earnest and unremitting labours for the instruction of mankind;...religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry; that therefore the proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by... | |
 | Garry Wills - 2007 - 646 pages
...which proceeding from an approbation of their personal conduct, are an additional incitement to earnest and unremitting labours for the instruction of mankind;...religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry; that therefore the proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by... | |
 | Ronald Bruce Flowers - 2005 - 244 pages
...approbation of their personal conduct, are an additional incitement to earnest and unremitting labors for the instruction of mankind; that our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, more than our opinions in physics or geometry; that, therefore, the proscribing any citizen as unworthy... | |
 | Timothy Fitzgerald - 2007 - 367 pages
...it clearly separates these rights from religious sanction and embeds them in nature and natural law: "our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physic[s] and geometry" (v). On the other hand, the civil magistrate should not be obliged "to intrude... | |
 | Ville Päivänsalo - 2007 - 240 pages
...long, starts with words: "Whereas Almighty God hath created the mind free ... ." Eventually, it says: "[O]ur civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry." Thomas Jefferson, "Act for Establishing Religious Freedom," in James Madison... | |
 | Lenny Flank - 2007 - 245 pages
...Convention—he was in France serving as Ambassador), that had been passed in Virginia in 1777, stating "our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry ... WE, the General Assembly of Virginia, do enact that no man shall be compelled... | |
 | Martha Craven Nussbaum - 2008 - 418 pages
...of giving his contributions to the particular pastor whose morals he would make his pattern . . . ; that our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry; . . . that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government, for... | |
 | Albert A. Anderson - 2008 - 356 pages
...approbation of their personal conduct, are an additional incitement to earnest and unremitting labors for the instruction of mankind; that our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, more than our opinions in physics or geometry; that, therefore, the proscribing [by] any citizen as... | |
 | Marc Karnis Landy, Sidney M. Milkis - 2008 - 41 pages
...separation" between church and state, inspiring similar legislation throughout the colonies. It declared, "Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry. Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself." Therefore, "no man shall... | |
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... our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry... 
