 | Michael McN. Walsh - Educational law and legislation - 1867 - 180 pages
...Constitutions of several of the States, without the phrase, have more of the spirit. SEC. 11. VIRGINIA. — Religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...reason, and conviction, not ^by force or violence ; and it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other.... | |
 | New York (State) - Constitution - 1867 - 254 pages
...law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the iree exercise thereof. U. &, 18. — That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, riot by force or violence ; and, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1868 - 940 pages
...justice, moderation, temperance and virtue, and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 18. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...not by force or violence ; and therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion according to the dictates of conscience ; and... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1868 - 490 pages
...temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. "Religion 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 it, according to the dictates of conscience ; and it is... | |
 | William Read Staples - Constitutional law - 1870 - 778 pages
...construed either as exceptions to certain specified powers, or as inserted merely for greater caution. 4. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...and therefore, all men have an equal, natural and inalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience ; and that... | |
 | Johann Jakob Rüttimann - Church and state - 1871 - 214 pages
...no man shall or ought to be compelled to attend any religious worship ; SSerfaffung bon SSirginien : that religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...by reason and conviction , not by force or violence uff). Фemnaф fte^t e§ jroar feft, bap naф bem ameпfaшfфen ©temt§nte ber ©njelne befugt ift,... | |
 | Caspar Thomas Hopkins - History - 1872 - 324 pages
...their public teachers, and contracting with them for their support and maintenance." 3. Virginia says: "That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...conviction, not by force or violence : and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience ; and... | |
 | Caspar Thomas Hopkins - United States - 1873 - 396 pages
...public teachers, and contracting with them for their support and maintenance." 162. Virginia says: " That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...conviction, not by force or violence ; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and... | |
 | United States - 1875 - 1750 pages
...duty of every man to worship God in such manner as he thinks most acceptable to Him. — Md., 1867. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...by reason and conviction, not by force or violence. — Pa., 1870. " Morality and piety, rightly grounded on evangelical principles," commended. — N.... | |
 | William Stevens Perry (bp. of Iowa.) - 1874 - 572 pages
...by the 16th Article of the Declaration of Rights, it is provided in the words following, viz. — " That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...conviction, not by force or violence, and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience ; and... | |
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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 ; and, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according... 
