... that our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry; that therefore the proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to... Notes on the State of Virginia - Page 329by Thomas Jefferson - 1801 - 495 pagesFull view - About this book
| Benjamin Orange Flower - Periodicals - 1911 - 616 pages
...religious opinions, any more than on our opinions in physics or geometry ; that, therefore, the prescribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying...upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion, is depriving him... | |
| William Addison Blakely, Willard Allen Colcord - Ecclesiastical law - 1911 - 820 pages
...religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry; that therefore the proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying...upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument, unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion, is depriving him... | |
| John Sharp Williams - 1913 - 358 pages
...religious opinions, any more than on our opinions in physics or geometry; that, therefore, the proscribing any citizen, as unworthy the public confidence, by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to (the) offices of trust and emolument, unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion,... | |
| Thomas Wilson Preston - Holston River (Va. and Tenn.) - 1926 - 266 pages
...religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry; that therefore the proscribing of any Citizen as unworthy the public confidence, by...upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument, unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion, is depriving him... | |
| Francis Wrigley Hirst - Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 - 1926 - 654 pages
...religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry ; that, therefore, the proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying...upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument, unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion, is depriving him... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - History - 1926 - 514 pages
...religious opinions, more than our opinions in physics or geometry; that, therefore, the proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to the offices of trust and emolument, unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion, is... | |
| James Kerr Pollock - United States - 1927 - 384 pages
...religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry ; that, therefore, the proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying...upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument, unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion, is depriving him... | |
| Leon Whipple - Constitutional law - 1927 - 172 pages
.... . our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions ; that therefore the proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to office of public trust and emolument, unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion,... | |
| United States - 1928 - 858 pages
...any more than our opinions in physics or geography ; that, therefore, the proscribing of any citizens as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument unless he prefers or renounces this or that religious opinion is depriving him... | |
| Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer - Literature, Modern - 1884 - 350 pages
...religious opinions any more thim our opinions in physics or geometry; that, therefore, the proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence, by...upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument unless lie profess or renounce this or that religious opinion, is depriving him... | |
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