 | Kenneth C. Davis - 2009 - 717 Seiten
...Freedom," enacted by the Virginia General Assembly in 1786: We the General Assembly of Virginia do enact that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body... | |
 | William Lee Miller - 2003 - 300 Seiten
...exercise” article of the Virginia Declaration, what young Madison had even then tried to spell out: that “no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever”—there went the established church and all forms of general assessment—and,... | |
 | Edward Marston - 2003 - 422 Seiten
...parsonages, and church edifices. The following is the text of the bill: “We the general assembly do enact: That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body... | |
 | Philip Slaughter - 2009 - 194 Seiten
...freedom that ever passed a legislative assembly on the face of the earth," is contained in the words,— "That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever,—but that all men shall be free to profess,and by argument to maintain,... | |
 | 2003 - 108 Seiten
...dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them. We the General Assembly of Virginia do enact that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body... | |
 | 2002 - 484 Seiten
...dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them. The act, following the enacting clause, provided that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body... | |
 | Merrill D. Peterson, Robert C. Vaughan - 2003 - 396 Seiten
...him to support this or that teacher of his own religious persuasion” is wrong. The enacting clause declares that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any church and that all shall be free to hold and exercise their opinions in matters of religion without... | |
 | Kenneth Maxwell - 2003 - 366 Seiten
...Monticello. It is one of the great expressions of the Enlightenment in America. The statute roads: No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship or ministry or shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or beliefs, but all men shall... | |
 | Kenneth Maxwell - 2003 - 366 Seiten
...Monticello. It is one of the great expressions of the Enlightenment in America. The statute reads: No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship or ministry or shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or beliefs, but all men shall... | |
 | Jeremiah Bell Jeter - 2004 - 580 Seiten
...in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess and by argument...to maintain their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, .enlarge, or affect their civil capacities." The latter... | |
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rights have no more dependence on our religious opinions, than on our opinions in physic or geometry." The act then declares, " that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship or minister whatever, and that all men shall be... 
