 | Jonathan Elliot - 1836 - 534 sider
...construed as exceptions to certain specified powers, or as inserted merely for greater caution. IV. Tlxit religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...; and therefore all men have a natural, equal, and unalienable right to the exercise nf religion according to the dictates of conscience; and that no... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks - 1836 - 634 sider
...appeals in Virginia, that the law of 1802 is constitutional. • The article it in these words :—" 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 an equally entitled to the free exercise... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - 1836 - 686 sider
...ought to be exempted, upon payment of an equivalent to employ another to bear arms in his stead. "20th. 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 (bp. of Pennsylvania.) - 1836 - 408 sider
...the sixteenth 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 - 1836 - 680 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... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks - 1836 - 682 sider
...Virginia, that the law of 1802 is constitutional. * The article il in these words :—" That religim, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner...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... | |
 | George Tucker - 1837 - 576 sider
...12,1776, the principle of religious freedom is distinctly asserted in the last article, which declares, "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... | |
 | 1841 - 460 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... | |
 | Samuel Perkins - 1841 - 484 sider
...of the king and parliament; the concluding one contains these propositions, which were then novel: " 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1841 - 1092 sider
...construed either as exceptions to certain specified powers, or as inserted merely for greater caution. IV. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can he directed only by reason and conviciion, not by force or violence; and, therefore, all men... | |
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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... 
