 | Edward Peterson - 1853 - 432 sider
...protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. That all men have an equal, natural, and inalienable right to the exercise of religion according to the dictates of their own consciences. That the people have a right to freedom of speech and of writing, and publishing... | |
 | Stephen Colwell - 1854 - 176 sider
...VIRGINIA. The sixteenth section of the Bill of Bights, prefixed to the Constitution of Virginia, reads : " That religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...not by force and violence ; and therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience ; and... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1854 - 170 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... | |
 | Charles Wilkins Webber - 1855 - 574 sider
...frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 14. (This article was also inserted by the Convention.) 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, that all men should enjoy the fulkst toleration... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - 1859 - 702 sider
...article of Colonel Mason's draught related to the vital subject of religious freedom. Setting forth, 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, it proceeded to declare that " all men should, therefore, enjoy... | |
 | John Scott - 1860 - 278 sider
...ought to be exempted, upon payment of an equivalent to employ another to bear arms in his stead. 20. 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... | |
 | Episcopal Church. General Convention - 1861 - 698 sider
...contrary, by the 16th Article of the Declaration of Rights, it is provided in the words following, viz.—" 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... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - 1861 - 802 sider
...oughno be exempted, upon payment of an equivalent to employ another to beaj arms in his stead. " 20. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and tl*« manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and convictior* , not by force or violence;... | |
 | Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - 1862 - 438 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... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - 1863 - 548 sider
...construed as exceptions to certain specified powers, or as inserted merely tor greater caution. IV. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...; and therefore all men have a natural, equal, and unalienable right to tbe exercise of religion according to the dictates of conscience; and that no... | |
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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... 
