 | United States. Congress - 1834 - 640 páginas
...therefore, move to have it struck out. Mr. MADISON said, he apprehended the meaning of the words to be, that Congress should not establish a religion, and enforce...conscience. Whether the words are necessary or not, he did Jiot mean to say, but they had been required by some of the State Conventions, who seemed to entertain... | |
 | FRANCIS NEWTON THORPE - 1901 - 862 páginas
...Madison, "that Congress shall not establish a religion and enforce the legal observance of it by law, or compel men to worship God in any manner contrary to their conscience." Whether the words were necessary or not, several of the late conventions had urged the adoption of some such provision,... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - 1901 - 724 páginas
...Madison, "that Congress shall not establish a religion and enforce the legal observance of it by law, or compel men to worship God in any manner contrary to their conscience." Whether the words were necessary or not, several of the late conventions had urged the adoption of some such provision,... | |
 | David Kemper Watson - 1910 - 1074 páginas
...other amendment he had heard proposed. Mr. Madison apprehended the meaning of the words to be, that Congress should not establish a religion, and enforce...manner contrary to their conscience. Whether the words were necessary or not, he did not mean to say, but they have been required by some of the State conventions,... | |
 | Religious Liberty Association (Washington, D.C.) - 1920 - 144 páginas
...the State's Relation to Religion " Madison said, he apprehended the meaning of the words to be, that Congress should not establish a religion, and enforce...worship God in any manner contrary to their conscience." — Ibid. Again : " He [Madison] believed that the people feared one sect might obtain a pre-eminence,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1943 - 872 páginas
...Annals of Congress 729. He said that he apprehended the meaning of the words on religion to be that Congress should not establish a religion and enforce...worship God in any manner contrary to their conscience. Id., 730. No such specific interpretation of the amendment on freedom of expression has been found... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1945 - 446 páginas
...Annals of Congress 729. He said that he apprehended the meaning of the words on religion to be that Congress should not establish a religion and enforce...worship God in any manner contrary to their conscience. Id., 730. No such specific interpretation of the amendment on freedom of expression has been found... | |
 | Joseph Hugh Brady - 1954 - 214 páginas
...the meaning of the words to be, that Congress should not establish a religion, and 22 Annals, I, 729. enforce the legal observation of it by law, nor compel...Conventions, who seemed to entertain an opinion that the clause of the Constitution, and the laws made under it, which gave Congress power to make all laws... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare - 1963 - 1628 páginas
...adopted by the Congress) : "Mr. Madison 'said, he apprehended the meaning of the words to be, that Congress should not establish a religion, and enforce...worship God in any manner contrary to their conscience. . . .' " Id. at 441. 88 Cooley, Constitutional Limitations 469 (2d ed. 1871). w 175 US 291 (1899).... | |
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MADISON said, he apprehended the meaning of the words to be, that Congress should not establish a religion, and enforce the legal observation of it by law, nor compel men to worship God in any manner contrary to their conscience. 
