Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.
“Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.”
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Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.
“Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.”
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“Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.”
“What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.”
“Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness.”
“I firmly believe that the Constitution is the most powerful challenge to illiberal tendencies. If the Constitution is followed in letter and spirit and if the laws are made in the spirit in which Constitution was made, liberties can indeed be protected.”
“I dreamed even after I laid down my rifle I would continue to uphold my oath to defend the Constitution.”
“The Constitution has a good share of deliberately open-ended guarantees, like rights to due process of law, equal protection of the law, and freedom from unreasonable searches.”
“If I were a Democrat, I'd siphon the power of states to the federal government. I'd ignore the Constitution and prevent states from determining their own voting practices.”
“Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.”