| California. Constitutional Convention, John Ross Browne - 1850 - 538 páginas
...of the recording angel. That clause read something in this manner : 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 ; therefore, all men are equally entitled... | |
| Joseph Story - 1851 - 642 páginas
...worshipping God in the manner which they believe their accountability to him requires. It has bepn truly said, that " religion, or the duty we owe to...reason and conviction, not by force or violence." 1 Mr. Locke himself, who did not doubt the right of government to interfere in matters of religion,... | |
| Protestant Episcopal Historical Society - 1851 - 244 páginas
...people of Virginia, met at Williamsburg, in May, 1776, it is said : '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... | |
| John Howard Hinton - 1851 - 136 páginas
...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
...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... | |
| Jonathan French - 1854 - 534 páginas
...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 it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally... | |
| Charles Wilkins Webber - 1855 - 600 páginas
...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 it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence, and therefore, that all men should... | |
| 1855 - 576 páginas
...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 it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; and therefore all men are equally... | |
| James Pinkney Hambleton - 1856 - 550 páginas
...in others, where the 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... | |
| William Cabell Rives - 1859 - 702 páginas
...intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both The article, as finally adopted, is as follows : — " That religion, or the duty 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... | |
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