 | John P. Kaminski - 2005 - 100 páginas
...complete separation of church and state. Although the Virginia Declaration of Rights provided that "all men are equally entitled to the free exercise...religion, according to the dictates of conscience," and the state constitution discontinued the official establishment of the Anglican Church, Jefferson felt... | |
 | Martin Borowski - 2006 - 888 páginas
...Menschen gleichermaßen zur freien Ausübung der Religion gemäß den Geboten des Gewissens berechtigt: »That religion or the duty, which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of dischargmg it can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force and violence; and therefore... | |
 | Chris Beneke Assistant Professor of History Bentley College - 2006 - 319 páginas
...Virginia Bill of Rights provided that religion could "be directed only by reason and conviction . . . and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience." At last there was a degree of clarity. The first important step had... | |
 | Jeff Broadwater - 2009 - 352 páginas
...towards men, is a duty towards the Creator," and that duty, Madison wrote, quoting directly from Mason, "can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence." Madison attacked one specific provision in the assessment bill, an exemption for Quakers and Mennonites,... | |
 | Ian Frederick Finseth - 2006 - 648 páginas
...a gentle policy of Southern reconstruction. 11. The Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776) held that "all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience." 12. John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky ran as a Democrat with the support... | |
 | Richard Labunski - 2006 - 352 páginas
...Remonstrance," PJM 8:298-304, 72, Editorial note, ibid,, 297-98. Article XVI states, in part, that "all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience," "Virginia Declaration of Rights," in Robert S, Alley, ed,, James Madison... | |
 | John P. Kaminski - 2006 - 118 páginas
...Anglican church. After this failed, he was able to replace Mason's draft with the positive statement that "all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience."20 The Virginia convention adjourned on July 5, 1776, unaware that the... | |
 | John MacLean - 2006 - 464 páginas
...condescension; and as the earnestness of his convictions overcame his modesty, he went on to demonstrate that 'all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion according to the dictates of conscience. ' His motion, which did but state with better dialectics the very purpose... | |
 | Ville Päivänsalo - 2007 - 240 páginas
...terms of political values of public reason." 67 Article 16 of the 1776 Virginia Bill of Rights is: "That religion, or the duty which we owe to our creator,...forbearance, love, and charity, towards each other." Declaration of Rights: Adopted by the Virginia Convention on June 12, 1776, in Charles F. James (ed.),... | |
 | George Anastaplo - 2007 - 346 páginas
...by the expression of a caution about how the virtues of citizens are to be developed and maintained: [R]eligion or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...conscience, and that it is the mutual duty of all to practise Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other. Nothing was said on that occasion... | |
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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... 
