 ... 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 injuriously of those privileges...  The Writings of Thomas Jefferson - Page 303by Thomas Jefferson - 1903Full view - About this book
 | jeffrey s gurock - 1998 - 516 pages
...trust and emolument, unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion, is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow-citizens, he has a natural right; that it tends only to corrupt the principles of that religion... | |
 | Mary C. Segers, Ted G. Jelen - 1998 - 216 pages
...trust and emolument, unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion, is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which in common with his fellow-citizens he has a natural right, that it tends only to corrupt the principles of that religion... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1999 - 676 pages
...390 injudiciously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow-citizens, he has a natural right; that it tends also to corrupt...to encourage, by bribing with a monopoly of worldly honours and emoluments, those who will externally profess and conform to it; that though indeed these... | |
 | Alan Levine - 1999 - 294 pages
...Jefferson "Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom in Virginia" (1785): religious tests for public office "corrupt the principles of that very religion it is...to encourage, by bribing with a monopoly of worldly honours and emoluments, those who will externally profess and conform to it." -William Leggett New... | |
 | Joy Hakim - 2003 - 356 pages
...trust and emolument, unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion, is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to...fellow citizens, he has a natural right; that it tends only to corrupt the principles of that religion it is meant to encourage, by bribing, with a monopoly... | |
 | Preston D. Graham - 2002 - 332 pages
...trust and emolument, unless he profess, or renounce this or that religious opinion, is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow-citizens, he has a natural right; — that it tends only to corrupt the principles of that religion... | |
 | 2003 - 108 pages
...trust and emolument, unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion, is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to...encourage, by bribing, with a monopoly of worldly honours and emoluments, those who will externally profess and conform to it; that though indeed these... | |
 | Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - 2003 - 852 pages
...right" to freedom of religious expression, but the use of civic authority in religious matters tends "to corrupt the principles of that very religion it is meant to encourage." By providing political incentives for outward conformity to a religion in which one does not believe,... | |
 | Edwin S. Gaustad, Mark A. Noll - 2003 - 652 pages
...trust and emolument, unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion, is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow citi2ens, he has a natural right; that it tends also to corrupt the principles of that very religion... | |
 | William Lee Miller - 2003 - 300 pages
...trust and emolument, unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion, is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow 255 citizens, he has a natural right; that it tends also to corrupt the principles of that very religion... | |
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