 | United States. Congress - United States - 1834 - 640 pages
...therefore, move to have it struck out. Mr. MADISON said, he apprehended the meaning of the words to be, that Congress should not establish a religion, and enforce...conscience. Whether the words are necessary or not, he did Jiot mean to say, but they had been required by some of the State Conventions, who seemed to entertain... | |
 | FRANCIS NEWTON THORPE - 1901 - 862 pages
...Madison, "that Congress shall not establish a religion and enforce the legal observance of it by law, or compel men to worship God in any manner contrary to their conscience." Whether the words were necessary or not, several of the late conventions had urged the adoption of some such provision,... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - Constitutional history - 1901 - 724 pages
...Madison, "that Congress shall not establish a religion and enforce the legal observance of it by law, or compel men to worship God in any manner contrary to their conscience." Whether the words were necessary or not, several of the late conventions had urged the adoption of some such provision,... | |
 | David Kemper Watson - Constitutional history - 1910 - 1074 pages
...other amendment he had heard proposed. Mr. Madison apprehended the meaning of the words to be, that Congress should not establish a religion, and enforce...manner contrary to their conscience. Whether the words were necessary or not, he did not mean to say, but they have been required by some of the State conventions,... | |
 | Religious Liberty Association (Washington, D.C.) - Freedom of religion - 1920 - 144 pages
...the State's Relation to Religion " Madison said, he apprehended the meaning of the words to be, that Congress should not establish a religion, and enforce...worship God in any manner contrary to their conscience." — Ibid. Again : " He [Madison] believed that the people feared one sect might obtain a pre-eminence,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1943 - 872 pages
...Annals of Congress 729. He said that he apprehended the meaning of the words on religion to be that Congress should not establish a religion and enforce...worship God in any manner contrary to their conscience. Id., 730. No such specific interpretation of the amendment on freedom of expression has been found... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Taxation - 1945 - 446 pages
...Annals of Congress 729. He said that he apprehended the meaning of the words on religion to be that Congress should not establish a religion and enforce...worship God in any manner contrary to their conscience. Id., 730. No such specific interpretation of the amendment on freedom of expression has been found... | |
 | Joseph Hugh Brady - Church and state - 1954 - 214 pages
...the meaning of the words to be, that Congress should not establish a religion, and 22 Annals, I, 729. enforce the legal observation of it by law, nor compel...Conventions, who seemed to entertain an opinion that the clause of the Constitution, and the laws made under it, which gave Congress power to make all laws... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare - 1963 - 1628 pages
...adopted by the Congress) : "Mr. Madison 'said, he apprehended the meaning of the words to be, that Congress should not establish a religion, and enforce...worship God in any manner contrary to their conscience. . . .' " Id. at 441. 88 Cooley, Constitutional Limitations 469 (2d ed. 1871). w 175 US 291 (1899).... | |
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MADISON said, he apprehended the meaning of the words to be, that Congress should not establish a religion, and enforce the legal observation of it by law, nor compel men to worship God in any manner contrary to their conscience. 
