 | Ezra Champion Seaman - Constitutional history - 1863 - 312 pages
...virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging...directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence, and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Morris - United States - 1864 - 842 pages
...virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. "16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging...conviction, not by force and violence, and, therefore, that all men should enjoy the fullest toleration in the exercise of religion, according to the dictates... | |
 | John Fulton - Constitutional history - 1864 - 582 pages
...certain specified powers, or as inserted merely for greater caution. " 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... | |
 | Education - 1866 - 544 pages
...States, without the phrase, have more of the spirit. SEC. 2. VIRGINIA. — Religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging...directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; and it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity... | |
 | Ransom Hebbard Tyler - Cemeteries - 1866 - 568 pages
...declared, among other things, as the "basis and foundation of government," that religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging...directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according... | |
 | FRANKLIN B. HOUGII - 1867 - 604 pages
...virtue, and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging...directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; and, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according... | |
 | Michael McN. Walsh - Educational law and legislation - 1867 - 180 pages
...States, without the phrase, have more of the spirit. SEC. 11. VIRGINIA. — Religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging...directed only by reason, and conviction, not ^by force or violence ; and it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity... | |
 | Virginia - Law - 1867 - 598 pages
...virtue, and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging...directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; and therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according... | |
 | 1867 - 312 pages
...virtue, and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. XVIII. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging...directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; and, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion according... | |
 | New York (State) - Constitution - 1867 - 254 pages
...religion, or prohibiting the iree exercise thereof. U. &, 18. — 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, riot by force or violence ; and, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion,... | |
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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, not by force or violence ; and, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according... 
