 | United States. Supreme Court - 1984 - 1024 sider
...1785," James Madison wrote, in part: "1. Because we hold it for a fundamental and undeniable truth, that Religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator...discharging it, can be directed only by reason and] conviction, not by force or violence.' The Religion then of every man must be left to the conviction... | |
 | United States federal convention - 1819 - 524 sider
...to be exempted, upon payment of an equivalent to employ another to bear arms in his stead. 1 ' Xx. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence, and therefore all men have an equal, natural, and unalienable... | |
 | William White - 1820 - 506 sider
...state, to be laid before the convention of October, 1786 provided in the words following, viz.—" That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence, and therefore all men are... | |
 | James Madison - 1828 - 16 sider
...remonstrate against the said bill— Because we hold it for a " fundamental and undeniable truth," that religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence. The religion, then, of every man; must be left to the conviction... | |
 | James Stuart - 1833 - 1050 sider
...remonstrate against the said bill. " Because, We hold it for a fundamental and undeniable truth, ' that religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence.' The religion, then, of every man, must be left to the conviction... | |
 | James Stuart - 1833 - 632 sider
...remonstrate against the said bill. " Because, We hold it for a fundamental and undeniable truth, ' that religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, car be directed only by reason and conviction, not by forc< or violence.' The religion, then, of... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1833 - 800 sider
...believe, their accountability to him requires. It has been truly said, that " religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be dictated only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence." Mr. Locke himself, who did not doubt... | |
 | 1835 - 388 sider
...moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...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... | |
 | Joseph Martin, William Henry Brockenbrough - 1835 - 644 sider
...ought to be exempted upon payment of an equivalent to employ another to bear arms in his stead. XX. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence, and therefore all men have an equal, natural and unalienable... | |
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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, and not by force and violence ; and therefore all men have a natural, equal, and inalienable right to the exercise... 
