...RELIGION The Virginia Declaration of Rights That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only...conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore, that all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion . . . THE VIRGINIA DECLARATION OF...

...for a fundamental and undeniable truth, "that Religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator and shall abide by the determinations of the United States in Congress assembled, on all questions, which [Virginia Declaration of Rights, art. 16] The Religion then of even1 man must be left to the conviction...

...disarm conservative opposition in the convention, he offered an alternative, including the clause, "All men are equally entitled to the free exercise...religion, according to the dictates of conscience." The Dissenters did not get disestablishment immediately, but they did get more than toleration.42 Enslaved...

...for a fundamental and undeniable truth, "that religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only...reason and conviction, not by force or violence." The Religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is...

...it for a fundamental and undeniable 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 or violence. The Religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is...

...for a fundamental and undeniable truth, 'that religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only...reason and conviction, not by force or violence.' The Religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is...

...for a fundamental and undeniable truth, "that Religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator and the Manner of discharging it, can be directed only...reason and conviction, not by force or violence." The Religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is...

...a Declaration of Rights, drafted by George Mason, protecting rights of religion, speech, and press. "All men are equally entitled to the free exercise...religion, according to the dictates of conscience," the Virginia constitution declared. Adding similar protections to the federal Constitution, Mason argued,...

...subjects. Rhode Island Constitution of 1790 4 . 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, and not by force or violence, and therefore all men, have an equal, natural and unalienable right to...

...adopted its Declaration of Rights as part of its new constitution, a provision of which stated that "all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion according to the dictates of conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance,...