| United States. Congress. House - Legislation - 282 pages
...conftrued as exceptions to certain Specified powers, or as inferted merely for greater caution. Fourth. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be direfted only by reafon and conviction, and not by force or violence, and therefore alt men have an... | |
| John Wilson Campbell - Virginia - 1813 - 322 pages
...frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. XVI. That religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging...it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force and violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion,... | |
| David Benedict - Baptists - 1813 - 588 pages
...we hold it for a fundamental and unalienable truth, " that religion, or the duty which we owe to the 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 be left to the conviction and conscience... | |
| David Bailie Warden - District of Columbia - 1816 - 230 pages
...delegates and representatives of Virginia holden at Williamsburgj in May 1766, it was solemnly declared : " that religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force and violence ; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of their... | |
| 1817 - 442 pages
...we hold it for a fundamental and unalienable truth, "that religion, or the duty which we owe to the 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 be left to the conviction and conscience... | |
| United States federal convention - 1819 - 524 pages
...ought to be exempted upon payment of an equivalent to employ another to bear arms in his stead. xx. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence, and therefore all men have an equal, natural and unalienable right, to the... | |
| William White - 1820 - 502 pages
...state, to be laid before the convention of October, 1786 provided in the words following, viz.—" That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence, and therefore all men are... | |
| Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 526 pages
...by the convention.) frugality and virtue, and by frequent recurrence u fundamental principles. 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, ш be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence, and, therefore that all... | |
| Virginia, William Waller Hening - Law - 1823 - 462 pages
...recurrence to fundamental principles. XVI. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Religion. 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,... | |
| Virginia, William Waller Hening - Law - 1821 - 674 pages
...frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Religion 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,... | |
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