 | Michael Farris - Education - 2005 - 228 pages
...Christians." 54 Somehow he turned a blind eye to the last section of the Virginia Declaration, which states: That religion, 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 toward each other. Moreover, Butler fails to mention... | |
 | Thomas L. Krannawitter, Daniel C. Palm - History - 2005 - 270 pages
...the Virginia Declaration of Rights, Madison argued that it is a "fundamental and undeniable truth" that "[r]eligion or the duty which we owe to our Creator...reason and conviction, not by force or violence." Madison continued: The Religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of... | |
 | Lorenzo de Zavala - History - 2005 - 436 pages
...remonstrate against the said bill, — 1st. Because, We hold it for a fundamental and undeniable truth, "that religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...reason and conviction, not by force or violence." The religion, then, of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it... | |
 | William A. Galston - Philosophy - 2005 - 220 pages
...We remonstrate against the said Bill, 1. Because we hold it for a fundamental and undeniable truth, "that Religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator...reason and conviction, not by force or violence." The Religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Bucar, Barbra Barnett - Political Science - 2005 - 426 pages
...coercive force in the assimilation of religion. It is, said Madison, a fundamental and undeniable truth That religion or the duty which we owe to our creator...by reason and conviction, not by force or violence. The religion, then, of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it... | |
 | Alf J. Mapp - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 196 pages
...reference to the Deity were somewhat ameliorated by what he did successfully include in that paragraph: "Religion, or the duty which we owe to our CREATOR,...of discharging it, can be directed only by reason GEORGE MASON and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to... | |
 | William J. Federer - History - 2005 - 292 pages
...help of James Madison, George Mason and Patrick Henry: That Religion, or the Duty which we owe our Creator, and the Manner of discharging it, can be directed only by Reason and Convictions, not by Force or Violence; and therefore all Men are equally entitled to the free exercise... | |
 | H. Jefferson Powell - Law - 2005 - 262 pages
...Teaching those principles was therefore unquestionably a public purpose. Article 16's preceding clause ("all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience") was not to the contrary, for "the whole relates to the rights of conscience"... | |
 | Andrew Levy - History - 2005 - 340 pages
...Declaration of Rights of the Virginia Constitution was added on a motion from James Madison. It stated that "all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience." Gewehr, 203. There are many discussions of Madison's role in composing... | |
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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... 
