 | North American review - 1879 - 736 pages
...moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 14. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...conviction, not by force or violence ; and, therefore, that it is the mutual duty of all men to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity, toward... | |
 | ALLEN THORNDIKE RICE - 1879 - 718 pages
...moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 14. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...conviction, not by force or violence ; and, therefore, that it is the mutual duty of all men to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity, toward... | |
 | Bernard Janin Sage - Constitutional history - 1881 - 656 pages
...justice, moderation, frugality and virtue, and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 16. 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... | |
 | Bernard Janin Sage - Constitutional history - 1881 - 656 pages
...justice, moderation, frugality and virtue, and by a 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 ; ana therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates... | |
 | Arthur Gilman - History - 1883 - 706 pages
...moderation, temperance, frugality and virtue, and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. XVI. 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... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - Virginia - 1883 - 578 pages
...military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power." Religion is " the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner...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." Lastly,... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - Virginia - 1883 - 568 pages
...subordinatiou to, and governed by, the civil power." Religion is "the duty which we owe to our Creator, aud the manner of discharging it can be directed only...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." Lastly,... | |
 | American Bar Association - Bar associations - 1883 - 1094 pages
...Madison with it. The last article of Colonel Mason's draft related to religious freedom, declaring that religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...and the manner of discharging it, can be directed by reason and conviction, not by force and violence; and hence, "that all men should enjoy the fullest... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Guy Padula - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 214 pages
...convention agreed to another proposal also written by Madison: That religion, or the duty which we owe our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be...directed only by reason and conviction, not by force and violence; and therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according... | |
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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... 
