 | Philip Perlmutter - 1999 - 356 pagini
...worst, compared to European practice, such restrictions were mild and unaccompanied by religious wars. matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities."190 Only four states, from 1789 to 1792, amended their constitutions to match Virginia's... | |
 | James H. Hutson - 2000 - 228 pagini
...hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion. . . ." "[N]o man shall be compelled to frequent or support...in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities."11 Such views, which Jefferson wrote into his famous 1779 Bill, would have a profound influence... | |
 | Andrew L. Fitz-Gibbon - 2000 - 294 pagini
...of "the separation of Church and State" have forgotten Jefferson's Declaration of Religious Freedom: "All men shall be free to profess, and by argument...in no wise diminish, enlarge or affect their civil capacities."72 Wolfhart Pannenberg suggests, 'the end of state-established religion did not mean the... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 pagini
...or beliefs; 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...diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities. SECTION III. And though we well know that this Assembly, elected by the people for their ordinary purposes... | |
 | Catharine Cookson - 2001 - 288 pagini
...man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministn whatsoe\er, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened...in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.1*2 Yet, the Virginia statute offered a broader libertv than that of Lockean toleration.... | |
 | John Kendall Nelson - 2001 - 502 pagini
...shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise surfer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but...in no wise diminish, enlarge or affect their civil capacities.20 The statute buried the establishment. Virginia Anglicans felt the aftershocks for years... | |
 | Peter W. Williams - 2002 - 628 pagini
...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...diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities. The final provision goes on to warn future legislators that "the rights hereby asserted are of the... | |
 | Isaac Backus, David Weston - 2001 - 612 pagini
...opinions or belief; butthat 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.1 Yet their houses for worship, and their large tracts of ministerial lands, were still... | |
 | Craig D. Atwood - 2001 - 414 pagini
...that proclaimed "that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions on matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities."1 However, Patrick Henry vigorously opposed the measure and it did not pass until 1786.... | |
 | J. Judd Owen - 2001 - 242 pagini
...all men shall be free to profess, and by argument maintain, their opinion in matters of religion, and the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities" (Jefferson [1787] 1954, 224). Moreover, Jefferson does not understand the polity to be capable of demanding,... | |
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Assembly, 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 or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious... 
