Religion and the State, Or, The Bible and the Public SchoolsDodd, Mead, 1876 - 393 pages |
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Samuel Thayer Spear. God or the duties we owe to him , or of affirming or resting upon the authority of the Bible , or adopting or denying any specific system of religious belief . It is just what it is - secular education - and as such ...
Samuel Thayer Spear. God or the duties we owe to him , or of affirming or resting upon the authority of the Bible , or adopting or denying any specific system of religious belief . It is just what it is - secular education - and as such ...
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... Shall it be Protestantism , and shall King James's version or the Protestant Bible be the book used ? No , says the Catholic , affirming with equal emphasis his rights as against any such instruction . It Bible in Public Schools . 79.
... Shall it be Protestantism , and shall King James's version or the Protestant Bible be the book used ? No , says the Catholic , affirming with equal emphasis his rights as against any such instruction . It Bible in Public Schools . 79.
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... affirmation or denial touching religion in the fundamental law . Whether the people are Pagans or Mohammedans , Atheists or Christians , does not appear in the law . No matter what they are , considered religiously , the objects ...
... affirmation or denial touching religion in the fundamental law . Whether the people are Pagans or Mohammedans , Atheists or Christians , does not appear in the law . No matter what they are , considered religiously , the objects ...
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... affirming , are equivalent to positive denials . But where affirmation is not a duty , there silence is not an offense . If one is not bound to speak , there is no sin in not speaking . Let it then be shown that States , as such , and ...
... affirming , are equivalent to positive denials . But where affirmation is not a duty , there silence is not an offense . If one is not bound to speak , there is no sin in not speaking . Let it then be shown that States , as such , and ...
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... affirming the divine authority of every existing civil magistracy and laying down the universal ob- ligation of obedience thereto as a duty which must always be performed is to make him teach what is not and cannot be true . It would ...
... affirming the divine authority of every existing civil magistracy and laying down the universal ob- ligation of obedience thereto as a duty which must always be performed is to make him teach what is not and cannot be true . It would ...
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Popular passages
Page 303 - to raise and support Armies" and "to provide and maintain a Navy.
Page 186 - All power residing originally in the people, and being derived from them, the several magistrates and officers of government, vested with authority, whether legislative, executive, or judicial, are their substitutes and agents, and are at all times accountable to them.
Page 251 - ... the liberty of conscience hereby secured shall not be so construed as to excuse acts of licentiousness, or justify practices inconsistent with the peace or safety of this state.
Page 242 - The mode of administering an oath or affirmation, shall be such as may be most consistent with, and binding upon, the conscience of the person to whom such oath or affirmation may be administered.
Page 344 - The free exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and worship, without discrimination, shall forever be guaranteed; and no person shall be denied any civil or political right, privilege, or capacity, on account of his religious opinions...
Page 266 - Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty and property, according to standing laws.
Page 143 - A State, in the ordinary sense of the Constitution, is a political community of free citizens occupying a territory of defined boundaries, and organized under a government sanctioned and limited by a written constitution, and established by the consent of the governed.
Page 240 - The Commonwealth shall not make any law for establishing any religion, or for imposing any religious observance, or for prohibiting the free exercise of any religion, and no religious test shall be required as a qualification for any office or public trust under the Commonwealth.
Page 343 - No person shall be required to attend or support any ministry or place of worship against his consent, nor shall any preference be given by law to any religious denomination or mode of worship.
Page 251 - All men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences...
References to this book
The Fourth R: Conflicts Over Religion in America's Public Schools Joan DelFattore Limited preview - 2004 |