 | Moses Coit Tyler - 1887 - 434 pages
...The fifteenth article was in these words : " That no free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence...by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles." The sixteenth article is an assertion of the doctrine of religious liberty, — the first time that... | |
 | Thomas Armitage - Baptists - 1887 - 1042 pages
...fifteenth and sixteenth sections in these words : 'That no free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence...by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. That religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator and the manner of discharging it, can be directed... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - Attorneys general - 1888 - 502 pages
...the perfect freedom secured by Madison's amendment. 1 Few 1 Original Draft. That religion or the duty we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging...conviction, not by force or violence : and therefore that all men should enjoy the fullest toleration in the exercise of religion, according to the dictates... | |
 | Richard Theodore Ely, John Huston Finley - Municipal finance - 1888 - 582 pages
...is this sentence from the Virginia Bill of Rights : " No free government or the blessing of liberty can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence...by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles." The italics are in the motto on the title page, and this motto was retained as an article in the new... | |
 | American Historical Association - History - 1888 - 596 pages
...reported to the body, these read as follows : " That no free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence...by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. " That religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed... | |
 | Philip Schaff - Church and state - 1888 - 176 pages
...principles, the fourth of which is in almost verbal agreement with the declaration of Virginia as follows : " That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, and not by force and violence ; and therefore all men have a natural, equal, and unalienable right... | |
 | Alonzo Trévier Jones - Church history - 1891 - 1046 pages
...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,...reason and conviction, not by force or violence.' The religion, then, of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man ; and it... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - United States - 1891 - 684 pages
...to employ another to bear arms in his stead. " 20th. That religion, or the duty which we owe to onr Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be...conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men have an equal, natural, and onalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates... | |
 | Kate Mason Rowland - Legislators - 1892 - 544 pages
...ought to be exempted upon payment of an equivalent, to employ another to bear arms in his stead. 20. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...conviction, not by force or violence, and therefore all men have an equal, natural, and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates... | |
 | Paul Erasmus Lauer - Church and state - 1892 - 134 pages
...or to infringe the rights of conscience." The amendment suggested by Virginia is better. It says : "That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...not by force or violence ; and, therefore, all men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates... | |
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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... 
