Manual of Members, Officers, and Standing Committees and Rules of the House of Delegates; Also, the Constitution of Virginia, Part 1Superintendent of Public Printing., 1881 |
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Page 41 - 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 have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience, and that no particular religious sect or society ought to be favored or established by law in preference to others.