 | Susan Dudley Gold - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2006 - 200 pages
...Christianity, Madison delivered a doctrine that set forth America's commitment to freedom of religion: The Religion then of every man must be left to the...of every man to exercise it as these may dictate. This right is in its nature an unalienable right. For more than two centuries, freedom of religion... | |
 | Don Hawkinson - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 470 pages
...truth "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...to the conviction and conscience of every man: and that it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate. James Madison, the fourth President,... | |
 | Barbara A. McGraw, Jo Renee Formicola - Religion and politics - 2005 - 368 pages
...continued to be 'stubborn for liberty'"67 Americans would do well to remember the words of James Madison: "The religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man. ... In matters of Religion, no man's right is abridged by the institution of Civil Society and . .... | |
 | Siarlys Jenkins - Law - 2005 - 272 pages
...served others so poorly? Our guiding principle has been James Madison's — that " [t] he Religion ... of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man." Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments, 2 Writings of James Madison 183, 184 (G. Hunt... | |
 | Lucy N. Oliveri - Church and state - 2006 - 184 pages
...served others so poorly? Our guiding principle has been James Madison's — that "the Religion . . . of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man." Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments, 2 Writings of James Madison 183, 184 (G. Hunt... | |
 | Kathryn Page Camp - Law - 2006 - 232 pages
...truth, "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...of every man to exercise it as these may dictate. This right is in its nature an unalienable right. It is unalienable, because the opinions of men, depending... | |
 | John Witte - Law - 2006 - 513 pages
...are "indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, [and] divine."9 James Madison wrote more generically: "The Religion then of every man must be left to the...the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate."10 The Baptist leader John Leland (1754-1841) echoed these sentiments: Every man must give... | |
 | Hugh Heclo - Political Science - 2009 - 312 pages
...truth, 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...of every man to exercise it as these may dictate. This right is in its nature an unalienable right. It is unalienable, because the opinions of men depending... | |
 | Ronald Bruce Flowers - Religion - 2005 - 244 pages
...truth, "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...of every man to exercise it as these may dictate. This right is in its nature an unalienable right. It is unalienable; because the opinions, of men,... | |
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The Religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate. 
