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" Almighty God hath created the mind free; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy author of our... "
Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late ... - Page 24
by Thomas Jefferson - 1829
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The American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation

Diane Ravitch - Reference - 2000 - 662 pages
...burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was...
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The Scarlet Thread of Scandal: Morality and the American Presidency

Charles W. Dunn - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 232 pages
...attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burdens, or by civil incapacitations . . . are a departure from the plan of the Holy Author of our religion." The Northwest Ordinance (1787) stated, "Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government...
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Understanding Thomas Jefferson

E. M. Halliday - Biography & Autobiography - 2009 - 306 pages
...burtheas, or by civil iricapacitations, rend only to beget habits of hypo.¿ crify and meannefs, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy Author of our religion who ¿ being Lord both of body and mind, yet chofe not Preamble of the to propagate it by coercions...
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Getting Over Equality: A Critical Diagnosis of Religious Freedom in America

Steven D. Smith - Law - 2001 - 250 pages
...for Religious Freedom ("Almighty God hath created the mind free" so that infringements on freedom are "a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion") 9 and the Declaration of Independence ("endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights"),...
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Myths in Stone: Religious Dimensions of Washington, D.C., Part 3

Jeffrey F. Meyer - Religion - 2001 - 382 pages
...hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens . . . are a departure from the plan of the Holy Author of our religion" is from the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. The southeast wall proclaims Jefferson's belief...
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The American Theory of Church and State

Loren P. Beth - Church and state - 2002 - 192 pages
...of making laws for the human mind."29 Jefferson was more explicit in discussing the act. He wrote: Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure...religion, an amendment was proposed, by inserting the word "Jesus Christ," so that it should read, "a departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author...
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A Kingdom Not of this World: Stuart Robinson's Struggle to Distinguish the ...

Preston D. Graham - History - 2002 - 332 pages
...or burdens, or by civil incorporations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy Author of our religion, who, being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was...
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A History of Hope: When Americans Have Dared to Dream of a Better Future

James W. Fraser - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 390 pages
...burthens, or by civll incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was...
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The First Liberty: America's Foundation in Religious Freedom, Expanded and ...

William Lee Miller - Religion - 2003 - 300 pages
...the world fools, and the other half hypocrites." 3 "THE INFIDEL OF EVERY DENOMINATION"? ... and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was...
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The Atheist: Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Bryan F. Le Beau - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 406 pages
...burdens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord of body and mind, yet chooses not to propagate it by coercion on either, or has in His...
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