 | Maine Historical Society - 1906 - 594 sider
...have the power to do, but it should be their duty to do." Whereupon he offered as an amendment : " As the happiness of a people and the good order and preservation of civil government especially depend upon piety, religion and morality ; and as these cannot generally be diffused but... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - 1909 - 678 sider
...provided he doth not disturb the public peace, or obstruct others in their religious worship. III. ° [As the happiness of a people, and the good order...essentially depend upon piety, religion, and morality; and as these cannot be generally diffused through acommunity but by the institution of the public worship... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor - 1964 - 648 sider
...others in their religious Worship. — Art. III. (As amended by Art. XI of the Articles of Amendment) [As the happiness of a people, and the good order...essentially depend upon piety, religion and morality ; and as these cannot be generally diffused through a Community, bat by the institution of the public... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1964 - 860 sider
...history, the constitution of Massachusetts in article III stated: As the happiness of a people, and good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend upon piety, religion, and morality ; and as these cannot be generally diffused through a community but by the institution of the public... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare - 1965 - 1644 sider
...others in their religious Worship. — II. (As amended by Art. XI of the Articles of Amendment) [As the of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, ly depend upon piety, religion and morality; and as these cannot be r diffused through a Community,... | |
 | Thomas J. Curry - 1987 - 289 sider
...the public peace, or obstruct others in their religious worship." Article III reasoned that because "the happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government" depended upon "piety, religion and morality," the government had the right to make provision for their... | |
 | Merrill D. Peterson, Robert C. Vaughan - 1988 - 392 sider
...on to explain this claim and to provide a government mechanism for enforcing it. Article III stated: "As the happiness of a people, and the good order...essentially depend upon piety, religion and morality; and as these cannot be generally diffused through a community, but by the institution of the public... | |
 | Kermit L. Hall - 2000 - 498 sider
...Massachusetis Constitution of 1780, for example, justified its ministerial taxes on the ground that "the happiness of a people and the good order and...preservation of civil government essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality."169 The Virginia assessment proposal was defended on the same ground.... | |
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III. [As the happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend upon piety, religion and morality ; and as these cannot be generally diffused through a community, but by the institution of the public worship... 
