 | Lucy N. Oliveri - 2006 - 184 páginas
...drawing between religions is an enterprise that, once begun, has no logical stopping point. They worried that "the same authority which can establish Christianity,...sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects." Memorial 186. The Religion Clauses, as a result, protect adherents of all religions, as well as those... | |
 | Robert A. Giacalone, Carole L. Jurkiewicz - 2003 - 582 páginas
...against minority beliefs. His fears of religious hegemony are clear when he wrote, "Who does not see the same authority which can establish Christianity,...sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects?" (Madison l973). Madison also defended the nontheist and argued that freedom implicitly guarantees the... | |
 | Don Hawkinson - 2005 - 470 páginas
...can it be subject to that of a legislative body."19 (Madison feared encroachment.) Worried Madison, "The same authority which can establish Christianity,...particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all the sects."20 Madison wrote, "Every page of it [the Christian Religion] disavows a dependence on the... | |
 | Susan Dudley Gold - 2006 - 200 páginas
...believes to be acceptable to him. "Who does not see," Madison asked those considering Henry's bill, "that the same authority which can establish Christianity,...establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christianity, in exclusion of all other Sects?" Swayed by such powerful arguments, the Virginia legislature... | |
 | Lorenzo de Zavala - 2005 - 436 páginas
...consequences by denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much soon to forget it. Who does not see the same authority which can establish Christianity,...of all other religions, may establish with the same case any particular sect of Christians in exclusion of all other sects? That the same authority which... | |
 | Steven V. Mazie - 2006 - 338 páginas
...think it necessary to rebel at a small tax supporting religious teachers, they ought to think again: Who does not see that the same authority which can...authority which can force a citizen to contribute three pence of his property for the support of any one establishment may force him to conform to any... | |
 | Kathryn Page Camp - 2006 - 232 páginas
...avoided the consequences by denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much soon to forget it. Who does not see that the same authority which can...authority which can force a citizen to contribute three pence only of his property for the support of any one establishment, may force him to conform... | |
 | Randall Herbert Balmer - 2006 - 286 páginas
...his famous 1 785 "Memorial and Remonstrance" to argue against any state endorsement of Christianity. "Who does not see that the same authority which can...sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects?" Madison asked. Like Williams before him, Madison worried that "the majority may trespass on the rights... | |
 | Chris Beneke Assistant Professor of History Bentley College - 2006 - 319 páginas
..."Memorial and Remonstrance" shifted the tide decisively against general assessment. "Who," Madison asked, "does not see that the same authority which can establish...sect of Christians in exclusion of all other sects?" Apparently very few now. By the fall of 1785, Madison's fellow assemblymen had been persuaded that... | |
 | Michael Martin - 2006
...Madison argued that multiple establishments were just as oppressive as single establishments because "Who does not see that the same authority which can...particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects?"11 He also expressed in very harsh terms the tendency of religiously based governments to debase... | |
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Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects? that the same authority which can force... 
