 | Francis Jennings - 2000 - 356 pages
...assembly's protest against the actions of the government replacing it. Further, Virginia directed that "all men are equally entitled to the free exercise...forbearance, love, and charity towards each other." One cannot ignore the exclusion of slaves from the ranks of men - it was not a trifling oversight -... | |
 | Garrett Ward Sheldon - 2003 - 324 pages
...forbearance: "That religion, or the duty which we owe 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 entided to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that the mutual... | |
 | Guy Padula - 2002 - 214 pages
...Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force and violence; and therefore, all men are equally entitled...conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other.41 Madison continued the drive... | |
 | Kermit L. Hall - 2001 - 806 pages
...provided: 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 an equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and... | |
 | 2001 - 244 pages
...religion, or the dury which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of dischatging it, can be ditecred only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence, and therefore all men ate equally entirled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictares of conscience; and... | |
 | Wolfgang Fikentscher, Achim R. Fochem - 2002 - 336 pages
...16. 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...forbearance, love, and charity towards each other. Eine Erklärung der Rechte, gegeben von den Vertretern des guten Volkes von Virginia, zusammengekommen... | |
 | Preston D. Graham - 2002 - 332 pages
...significant declaration. Religion or the duty we owe to the Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force...entitled to the free exercise of religion according to the dictates of conscience. This declaration, however, was merely abstract, and did not stay the... | |
 | Nathan W. Schlueter - 2002 - 212 pages
...of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, which affirms the right to religious liberty, also declares "that it is the mutual duty of all to practise Christian forbearance, love, and charity, towards each other."79 This same formula can be found in the Constitutions of Massachusetts (1780), New Hampshire... | |
 | Theodore L. Johnson - 2002 - 600 pages
...Twentieth, 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... | |
 | Lon Cantor - 2003 - 244 pages
...16. 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...conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other. The Constitution of Virginia (1776)... | |
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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... 
