...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 religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty...

...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 religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his almighty...

...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 religion, who being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either. . . . ; that to compel...

...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 religion. . . ." "[N]o man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry...

...God hath created the free mind. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens ... are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion .... No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship or ministry or shall otherwise...

...or 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 &n cithej¿, as was...

...all 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...

...Statute 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"),...

...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...

...punishment, 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 religion, who, being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty...