 | Jefferson Powell - 1993 - 320 pàgines
...conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience;...forbearance, love, and charity towards each other." Article 16. 191 See generally Ferguson, "Constitution as Literary Text." and the Constitution of 1787... | |
 | J. F. Maclear - 1995 - 534 pàgines
...conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience;...forbearance, love, and charity towards each other." For entire Declaration, see Francis Newton Thorpe (ed.), The Federal and State Constitutions (Washington,... | |
 | V. Norskov Olsen - 1996 - 116 pàgines
...conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entiUed to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience;...Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other."2' Constitution of Massachusetts - 1780: "Article I. All men are born free and equal, and have... | |
 | James Madison - 1997 - 140 pàgines
...conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience;...forbearance, love, and charity, towards each other. The preservation of a free Government requires not merely, that the metes and bounds which separate each... | |
 | Daniel C. Palm - 1997 - 230 pàgines
...conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience;...Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other.29 The liberality of the section is largely due to the efforts of Jefferson and Madison, at whose... | |
 | Andy Williams - 1998 - 230 pàgines
...conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience;...forbearance, love, and charity towards each other. 184 Appendix 3 The Constitution of the United States of America Proposed by Convention September 17,... | |
 | jeffrey s gurock - 1998 - 516 pàgines
...entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that it is 93 the mutual duty of all to practise Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other.70 In principle, where religious liberty was involved, despite its reference to "Christian forbearance,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1998 - 374 pàgines
...conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience;...forbearance, love, and charity towards each other." The "Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom," Bill number 82 of the revisions to Virginia law as proposed... | |
 | Francis Jennings - 2000 - 356 pàgines
...replacing it. Further, Virginia directed that "all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience;...forbearance, love, and charity towards each other." One cannot ignore the exclusion of slaves from the ranks of men - it was not a trifling oversight -... | |
 | Kermit L. Hall - 2001 - 806 pàgines
...conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men an equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience;...forbearance, love, and charity towards each other. Va Bill of Rights of 1776, i 16, rtprinud in a FEOERAL ANO STATE CONSTITUTIONS, supra note t, at 1908,... | |
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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... 
