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Christianity and American Democracy - Page 246
by Hugh Heclo - 2009 - 312 pages
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Centennial Offering: Republication of the Principles and Acts of the ...

Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1876 - 536 pages
...moderation, temperance, frugality and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...by reason and conviction, not by force or violence, and, therefore that all men should enjoy the fullest toleration in the exercise of religion, according...
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VIRGINIA

1876 - 326 pages
...regularly convej^ed to them. Clause 18 of the Bill of Rights, a portion of the organic law, declares "That religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and,, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion according to the dictates...
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The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of ..., Volume 3

Jonathan Elliot - Constitutional law - 1876 - 692 pages
...be exempted, upon payment of an equivalent to employ another to bear arms in his stead. " 20th. Thit religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men have an equal, natural, and tmalienable right to the free exercise of religion,...
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Political and Constitutional Law of the United States of America

William O. Bateman - Constitutional law - 1876 - 416 pages
...construed as exceptions to certain specifiedpowers, or as inserted merely for greater caution. 'IV. That religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, and not by force and violence; and, therefore, all men have a natural, equal, and unalienable right...
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The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of ..., Volume 4

Jonathan Elliot - Constitutional law - 1876 - 664 pages
...arms in his stead. " 20. '1'hat religion, or the duty which we owe to onr Creator, and the manlier of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; and therefore all men have an equal, natural, and mnlirnahle right to the free exercise of religion,...
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History of the United States of America, from the Discovery of the ..., Volume 5

George Bancroft - United States - 1876 - 652 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...
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History of the United States of America, from the Discovery of the ..., Volume 5

George Bancroft - United States - 1876 - 650 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...
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Acts and Joint Resolutions, Amending the Constitution, of the General ...

Virginia - Law - 1877 - 476 pages
...temperance and virtue, and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 18. That religion, or tLe duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of...by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion according to the dic'tates...
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Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia, Volume 2

Virginia - 1878 - 530 pages
...Thus the court was equally divided, and, of course, the decree * The article ia in these words: — " That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator...by reason and conviction, not by force or violence, and therefore all men are equally entitled to the tree exercise of religion according to the dictates...
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Religion in American Public Life: Living with Our Deepest Differences

Azizah al-Hibri, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Charles C. Haynes - Political Science - 2001 - 212 pages
...Sometimes they have "been seen upholding the thrones of political tyranny." In contrast, he argues, "Religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator...reason and conviction, not by force or violence." Only a freely chosen, disestablished faith can ground the virtue that guarantees freedom. 4. Three...
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