 | Episcopal Church. Diocese of Virginia - Virginia - 1885 - 216 pages
...Convention was George Mason, who drew the famed Declaration of Rights, which declares that " Religion is the duty we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it can be directed only by reason and conviction, and not by force ; and therefore all men are equally entitled... | |
 | Howard Willis Preston - History - 1886 - 344 pages
...virtue, and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. XVI. 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... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 878 pages
...called the " Principles and Acts of the Bevolution," 124. It declares 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 form or violence, and that therefore all men should... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1408 pages
...specified powers, or as inserted merely for greater caution. I;IV. 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 have an equal,... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis, Franklin S. Richards - Edmunds Act 1882 - 1886 - 92 pages
...Carolina used a greater amplitude of expression. Both of them said : " That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conscience, not by force and violence ; and therefore all men have an equal,... | |
 | Thomas Armitage - Baptists - 1887 - 1042 pages
...moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and 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 only by reason and conviction, and not by force or violence; and, therefore, that all men... | |
 | John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gillett Pond - United States - 1887 - 764 pages
...proposed as " a declaration of rights," and put on record, the last is, " 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 have an... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1890 - 1226 pages
...divorced, as set forth in the memorable words of the bill of rights, as follows: "Religion, ortheduty 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... | |
 | American Historical Association - History - 1888 - 596 pages
...moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and 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 only by reason and conviction, and not by force or violence ; and, therefore, that all men... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - United States - 1888 - 434 pages
...liberty ards each other. and the existence of the state be manifestly endangered. As Finally Adopted. 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 or violence, and, therefore, all men are equally... | |
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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... 
