 | Edwin Charles Dargan - Church - 1905 - 706 pages
...act to establish religious freedom. This was drawn by Thomas Jefferson, and is in these words: "Be it enacted by the General Assembly that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, belief or minister whatsoever; nor shall be enforced, restrained,... | |
 | Thomas Cary Johnson - Church and state in Virginia - 1907 - 136 pages
...and debate, error ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them. " 2d. Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained,... | |
 | William M. Clark - Church - 1907 - 396 pages
...freedom. After a noble preamble, that act which was drawn up by Churchmen reads as follows: "II. Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained,... | |
 | Virginia State Library - 1908 - 1222 pages
...to the present form of Government. If our Rsligious Opinions are no bar to onr Civil Rights and if no man shall be compelled to support any religious worship place or Minister whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, or Bnrthened til his Bcdy or goods, nor shall... | |
 | Alfred Bagby - History - 1908 - 450 pages
...June, 1779. It was held up, the enemy being too strong. The act, as finally passed, reads : ' Be it enacted by the General Assembly, that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall he be enforced,... | |
 | David Kemper Watson - Constitutional history - 1910 - 1074 pages
...and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them: "II. Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained,... | |
 | William Addison Blakely, Willard Allen Colcord - Ecclesiastical law - 1911 - 808 pages
...unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them. Be it tlierefore enacted by the General Assembly, That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any... | |
 | William Addison Blakely, Willard Allen Colcord - Ecclesiastical law - 1911 - 820 pages
...and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them : "Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained,... | |
 | Nutrition - 1911 - 860 pages
...Assembly two years later, where it had lain upon the table for six years. It read as follows: "Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatever; nor shall be enforced, restrained,... | |
 | Seventh-Day Adventists - 1916 - 804 pages
...session of 1785. Following a preamble setting forth the principles involved, the law was as follows: "Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly, That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained,... | |
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Be it therefore enacted by the General 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... 
