 | John Howard Hinton - 1851 - 136 páginas
...vicious, and encourage the virtuous, by wholesome laws, equally extending to every individual. But that the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can only be directed by reason and conviction, and is nowhere cognisable but at the tribunal of the universal... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1852 - 614 páginas
...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, and the manner of discharging it, can only be directed by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; and, therefore, all men are equally... | |
 | Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention, Nathan Hale - 1853 - 700 páginas
...matters of religion. Now I hold that religion is a matter exclusively between God and the individual; and " the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason or conviction ; and thus, I repeat it. this right is in its nature an unalienable right, because it... | |
 | Charles Wilkins Webber - 1855 - 600 páginas
...moderation, temperance, frugality and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our...conviction, not by force or violence, and therefore, that all men should enjoy the fullest toleration in the exercises of religion, according to the dictates... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1855 - 702 páginas
...and to withhold from it any support by public taxation. But, although it may be true that " religion can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence," and that "all men are equally 'entitled to the [ * 49 ] VOL. in. 22 Terrett r. Taylor. 9 C. free exercise... | |
 | James Pinkney Hambleton - 1856 - 564 páginas
...privilege was not so extensive. But our glorious old Bill of llighta provided " that religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conscience, not by force or violence ; and therefore all men are entitled to a free exercise of religion,... | |
 | James Pinkney Hambleton - 1856 - 550 páginas
...privilege was not so extensive. But our glorious old Bill of Eights provided " that religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conscience, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are entitled to a free exercise of religion,... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - 1859 - 702 páginas
...remonstrate against the said bill ; — Because we hold it for a fundamental and undeniable truth, " that religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...be directed only by reason and conviction, not by MEMORIAL AND REMONSTRANCE. 635 force or violence."* The religion, then, of every man must be left to... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - 1859 - 700 páginas
...Madison. " That religion, or the duty we " That religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and the man- owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be di- ner of discharging it, being under rected only by reason and convic- the direction of reason and... | |
 | John Scott - 1860 - 278 páginas
...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,...not by force or violence, and, therefore, all men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates... | |
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Because we hold it for a fundamental and undeniable truth " 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. 
