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... once the object of an extended popu- lar worship . They have but to speak the word , and immediately a thousand newspapers publish it ; a whole race of minor demagogues repeat and inculcate it ; ignorance is led captive ; intelligence ...
... once the object of an extended popu- lar worship . They have but to speak the word , and immediately a thousand newspapers publish it ; a whole race of minor demagogues repeat and inculcate it ; ignorance is led captive ; intelligence ...
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... once into the same family circle of undistinguished and indistinguishable unity ; free alike to live among us , and to rise above our heads ; for the doctrine is , that whoever is entitled to sit in the shade of the constitutional tower ...
... once into the same family circle of undistinguished and indistinguishable unity ; free alike to live among us , and to rise above our heads ; for the doctrine is , that whoever is entitled to sit in the shade of the constitutional tower ...
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... once to an agreement as to all the details of legal regiment proper even for their statute - book ; much less can they be expected to put down on paper the unnumbered rights and interests that need no paper evidence , and call for no ...
... once to an agreement as to all the details of legal regiment proper even for their statute - book ; much less can they be expected to put down on paper the unnumbered rights and interests that need no paper evidence , and call for no ...
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... once the spirit of the fundamental code , the common law of our essential liberties . Nor is it in the option of public men to refuse us their pro- tection here if necessary . Rights which nature gave us , which we have never ...
... once the spirit of the fundamental code , the common law of our essential liberties . Nor is it in the option of public men to refuse us their pro- tection here if necessary . Rights which nature gave us , which we have never ...
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... once were in either the faith or practice of christianity , need not be asserted . The argument does not call for that . If they were christians when the institutions of the land were founded by them , it is enough . The rule in ques ...
... once were in either the faith or practice of christianity , need not be asserted . The argument does not call for that . If they were christians when the institutions of the land were founded by them , it is enough . The rule in ques ...
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An Inquiry Into the Moral and Religious Character of the American Government No preview available - 2020 |
An Inquiry Into the Moral and Religious Character of the American Government American Government No preview available - 2017 |
An Inquiry Into the Moral and Religious Character of the American Government American Government No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 77 - God, and of public instructions in piety, religion and morality ; therefore, to promote their happiness, and to secure the good order and preservation of their government, the people of this Commonwealth have a right to invest their legislature with power to authorize and require, and the legislature shall, from time to time, authorize and require the several towns, parishes, precincts, and other bodies politic, or religious societies, to make suitable provision, at their own expence, for the institution...
Page 77 - III. [As the happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend upon piety, religion and morality ; and as these cannot be generally diffused through a community, but by the institution of the public worship of God, and of public instructions in piety, religion and morality...
Page 97 - The people of this State, in common with the people of this country, profess the general doctrines of Christianity, as the rule of their faith and practice; and to scandalize the author of these doctrines is not only, in a religious point of view, extremely impious, but, even in respect to the obligations due to society, is a gross violation of decency and good order...
Page 82 - ARE you persuaded that the holy Scriptures contain sufficiently all Doctrine required of necessity for eternal salvation through faith in Jesus Christ? and are you determined, out of the said Scriptures to instruct the people committed to your charge, and to teach nothing, as required of necessity to eternal salvation, but that which you shall be persuaded may be concluded and proved by the Scripture ? Answer.
Page 116 - recommend a day of public humiliation, prayer, and fasting to be observed by the people of the United States with religious solemnities and the offering of fervent supplications to Almighty God for the safety and welfare of these States, His blessings on their arms, and a speedy restoration of peace...
Page 75 - And whereas the ministers of the gospel are, by their profession, dedicated to the service of God and the cure of souls, and ought not to be diverted from the great duties of their functions; therefore, no minister of the gospel, or priest of any denomination whatsoever, shall, at any time hereafter, under any pretence or description whatever, be eligible to, or capable of holding, any civil or military office or place within this state.
Page 127 - ... humanity enjoins us to teach them agriculture and the domestic arts; to encourage them to that industry which alone can enable them to maintain their place in existence and to prepare them in time for that state of society which to bodily comforts adds the improvement of...
Page 78 - ... justice, moderation, temperance, industry and frugality, are absolutely necessary to preserve the advantages of liberty, and to maintain a free government. The people ought, consequently, to have a particular attention to all those principles, in the choice of their officers and representatives: and they have a right to require of their lawgivers and magistrates an exact and constant observance of them, in the formation and execution of the laws necessary for the good administration of the commonwealth.
Page 79 - I do believe in one God, the Creator and Governor of the universe, the rewarder of the good and punisher of the wicked. And I do acknowledge the scriptures of the old and new testament to be given by divine inspiration, and own and profess the protestant religion.
Page 80 - Or by Article 22 of the constitution of Delaware, 1776, which required all officers, besides an oath of allegiance, to make and subscribe the following declaration : "I, AB, do profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ His only Son, and in the Holy Ghost, one God, blessed for evermore; and I do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration.