 | Henry Howe - Virginia - 1845 - 562 pages
...religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can only be directed by reason and conviction, not by force or violence...entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience." But the constitution itself, passed June 29th, is silent on the subject... | |
 | Henry Howe - Virginia - 1845 - 596 pages
...religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can only be directed by reason and conviction, not by force or violence...all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of retigion, according to the dictates of con. science." But the constitution itself, passed June 29th,... | |
 | John Bigelow - Constitutions - 1848 - 538 pages
...recurrence to fundamental principles. 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only...forbearance, love, and charity towards each other. CONSTITUTION. AKTICLE I. posterity, as the bases and foundation of government ; requiring in the opinion... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1040 pages
...recurrence to fundamental principles. " That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only...forbearance, love, and charity towards each other." By Article 1st of the amended constitution of this state, adopted 14th January, 1830, it is declared,... | |
 | Samuel Perkins - 1848 - 494 pages
...propositions, which were then novel : " That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only...dictates of conscience, and that it is the mutual duty.of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each oilier." In 1830, a new... | |
 | William Henry Foote - Virginia - 1850 - 582 pages
...of the Bill of Rights is in these words — " That religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only...forbearance, love and charity towards each other." These declarations breathe the spirit of civil and religious liberty, and spoke the true feelings of... | |
 | William Henry Foote - Virginia - 1850 - 584 pages
...of the Bill of Rights is in these words — " That religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only...forbearance, love and charity towards each other." These declarations breathe the spirit of civil and religious liberty, and spoke the true feelings of... | |
 | John Ross Browne - Constitutional conventions - 1850 - 538 pages
...third section reported by the Committee : That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only...conscience ; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other. Mr. HALLECK remarked that this... | |
 | California. Constitutional Convention, John Ross Browne - California - 1850 - 540 pages
...third section reported by the Committee : That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can. be directed only...conscience ; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other. Mr. HALLECK remarked that this... | |
 | California. Constitutional Convention, John Ross Browne - California - 1850 - 528 pages
...conviction, not by force or violence ; therefore, all men are equally entitled to the froe exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience...forbearance, love, and charity towards each other. I acknowledged the full force of the remark made by the gentleman at the tinne ; and for one, I do... | |
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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... 
