 Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects? That the same authority which can force...  Niles' National Register - Page 2891817Full view - About this book
 | David Benedict - Baptists - 1813 - 588 pages
...other sects ; that the same authority, which can force a. citizen to contribute three pence only of his property, for the support of any one establishment,...violates that equality which ought to be the basis •f every law ; and which ii more indispensable, in proportion as the validity or expediency of any... | |
 | James Stuart - North America - 1833 - 568 pages
...all other sects? That the same authority which can force a citizen to contribute threepence only of his property for the support of any one establishment,...indispensable in proportion as the validity or expediency c4 of any law is more liable to be impeached. If ' all men are by nature equally free and independent,'... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks - Maryland - 1836 - 632 pages
...was done was competent also to establish one sect in preference to another ; and that such preference violates that equality which ought to be the basis of every law, for all men enter society upon equal conditions. It was urged also that the civil magistrate is not... | |
 | Alonzo Trévier Jones - Church history - 1891 - 1046 pages
...other sects ? that the same authority which can force a citizen to contribute three pence only, of his property, for the support of any one establishment,...to any other establishment in all cases whatsoever ? "4. Because the hill violates that equality which ought to be the basis of every law. and which is... | |
 | Charles Fenton James - Freedom of religion - 1899 - 284 pages
...all other sects ? That the same authority which can force a citizen to contribute three pence only of his property for the support of any one establishment...to conform to any other establishment in all cases whetsoever. Because the bill violates that equality which ought to be the basis of every law, and which... | |
 | James Madison - Constitutional history - 1787 - 446 pages
...all other Sects ? That the same authority which can force a citizen to contribute three pence only of his property for the support of any one establishment,...to any other establishment in all cases whatsoever ? 4. Because, the bill violates that equality which ought to be the basis of every law, and which is... | |
 | James Madison - Constitutional history - 1901 - 440 pages
...all other Sects ? That the same authority which can force a citizen to contribute three pence only of his property for the support of any one establishment,...to any other establishment in all cases whatsoever ? 4. Because, the bill violates that equality which ought to be the basis of every law, and which is... | |
 | William Taylor Stott - Religion - 1908 - 438 pages
...of all other- sects ? The same authority that can force a citizen to contribute three pence only of his property for the support of any one establishment may force him to contribute to any other establishment, in all cases whatsoever. "BECAUSE the bill violates that equality... | |
 | William Addison Blakely, Willard Allen Colcord - Ecclesiastical law - 1911 - 820 pages
...same authority which can Establish- establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other retyrannical for the support of any one establishment, may force...to any other establishment in all cases whatsoever ? Equality the 4. Because the bill violates that equality which frinsements 'everylaw. ought to be... | |
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