 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...  Niles' National Register - Page 2911817Full view - About this book
 | John Wilson Campbell, Moses Hoge - 1813 - 322 pages
...and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. XVI. 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 and violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according... | |
 | David Bailie Warden - 1816 - 230 pages
...Williamsburgj in May 1766, it was solemnly declared : " 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 and violence ; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of their religion, according... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1817 - 528 pages
...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 tfen arc equally entitled to the free exercise of religion according to TERRETT the dictates-of... | |
 | United States federal convention - 1819 - 530 pages
...equivalent to employ another to bear arms in his stead. xx. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be...by reason and conviction, not by force or violence, and therefore all men have an equal, natural and unalienable right, to the free exercise of religion,... | |
 | William White - 1820 - 506 pages
...following, viz. — " That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging, 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 to the dictates... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - 1822 - 526 pages
...principles. 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, ш be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence, and, therefore that all men «/«¿J enjoy thefuUeit toleration in the exerciie of rthjin, according... | |
 | Virginia, William Waller Hening - 1823 - 462 pages
...recurrence to fundamental principles. XVI. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Religion. Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be...by reason and conviction, not by force or violence, and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates... | |
 | Virginia, Virginia. General Assembly - 1821 - 674 pages
...frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Religion CREATOR, and the manner of discharging it, can be...by reason and conviction, not by force or violence, and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dic»... | |
 | Virginia - 1833 - 604 pages
...by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 10. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be...by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates... | |
 | 1834 - 544 pages
...liberty.' Virginia, in its constitution, says : — ' That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be...by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates... | |
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