 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1868 - 940 pages
...virtue, and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 18. 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... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Stephens - History - 1868 - 702 pages
...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 be directed only by reason and conviction, and not by force and violence ; and, therefore, all men have a natural, equal, and unalienable right... | |
 | William Read Staples - Constitutional law - 1870 - 778 pages
...certain specified powers, or as inserted merely for greater caution. 4. 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 have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise... | |
 | Johann Jakob Rüttimann - Church and state - 1871 - 216 pages
...compelled to attend any religious worship ; SBerfaffung bon SBirginien : 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 uff). Фemnaф fte^t e§ jroar feft, bafj naф bem ameпfam|^en ©taat§reфte ber 6injeтe... | |
 | Caspar Thomas Hopkins - History - 1872 - 324 pages
...contracting with them for their support and maintenance." 3. Virginia says: "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... | |
 | African Americans - 1872 - 408 pages
...glory; and, as righteousness exalteth a nation, it is the duty of the civil authority — not to enforce religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging that duty by the secular arm, that can only be directed by reason and conviction, for all men are entitled... | |
 | Caspar Thomas Hopkins - United States - 1873 - 396 pages
...with them for their support and maintenance." 162. Virginia says: " 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... | |
 | United States - 1875 - 1750 pages
...in such manner as he thinks most acceptable to Him. — Md., 1867. 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. — Pa., 1870. " Morality and piety, rightly grounded on evangelical principles," commended.... | |
 | William Stevens Perry (bp. of Iowa.) - 1874 - 572 pages
...Declaration of Rights, it is provided in the words following, viz. — " 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... | |
 | William Stevens Perry - 1874 - 598 pages
...Declaration of Rights, it is provided in the words following, viz. — " 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... | |
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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... 
