...that its protection of opinion was meant to be universal. Where the preamble declares that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting the words 'Jesus Christ,' so that it should read 'A departure...

...Journal, p. 139. tempts to influence It by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapac itations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a depnrture from the plan of the Holy Author of our religion, who being Lord both of body and mind, yet...

...God hath created the free mind. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens ... are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion .... No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship or ministry or shall otherwise...

...spine of any official of the old regime. It began: "Almighty God hath created the mind free, that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tends only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness."42 After summarizing the "religious slavery"...

...or burtheas, or by civil iricapacitations, rend only to beget habits of hypo.¿ crify and meannefs, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy Author...religion who ¿ being Lord both of body and mind, yet chofe not Preamble of the to propagate it by coercions &n cithej¿, as was ¿ Statute of Virginia his...

...Statute for Religious Freedom ("Almighty God hath created the mind free" so that infringements on freedom are "a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion") 9 and the Declaration of Independence ("endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights"),...

...hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens . . . are a departure from the plan of the Holy Author of our religion" is from the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. The southeast wall proclaims Jefferson's belief...

...all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burdens, or by civil incapacitations . . . are a departure from the plan of the Holy Author of our religion." The Northwest Ordinance (1787) stated, "Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government...

...statute was unforgiving and uncompromising: Whereas Almighty God hath created the mind free, that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitation tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, . . . that the impious presumptions...

...of restraining; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civll incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy...being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Ahuighty power to do, but to extend it hy its influence...