...that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness,...chose not to propagate it by coercions on either. . . . ; that to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which...

..."[Alll attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness,...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...religion who ¿ being Lord both of body and mind, yet chofe not Preamble of the to propagate it by coercions &n cithej¿, as was ¿ Statute of Virginia his...

...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"),...

...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...

...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...

...— that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burdens, or by civil incorporations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness,...either, as was in his almighty power to do; — that the impious presumptions of legislatures and rulers, civil and ecclesiastical, who being themselves but...

...that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civll incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness,...propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Ahuighty power to do, but to extend it hy its influence on reason alone.14 While individual reason...

...Jefferson was more explicit in discussing the act. He wrote: Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed, by inserting the word "Jesus Christ," so that it should read, "a departure...