Omitted Chapters of History Disclosed in the Life and Papers of Edmund Randolph: Governor of Virginia; First Attorney-general United States, Secretary of StateG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1888 - 401 páginas |
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Página 119 - That religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; and, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience ; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love and charity towards each other.
Página 129 - That all the before-mentioned courts of the United States shall have power to issue writs of scire facias, habeas corpus, and all other writs, not specially provided for by statute, which may be necessary for the exercise of their respective jurisdictions, and agreeable to the principles and usages of law.
Página 157 - The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood? My own affections have been deeply wounded by some of the martyrs to this cause, but rather than it should have failed, I would have seen half the earth desolated. Were there but an Adam and an Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better than as it now is.
Página 114 - As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion...
Página 225 - Your confidence in me, Sir, has been unlimited, and, I can truly affirm, unabused. My sensations, then, cannot be concealed, when I find that confidence so immediately withdrawn, without a word or distant hint being previously dropped to me. This, Sir, as I mentioned in your room, is a situation in which I cannot hold my present office, and therefore I hereby resign it.
Página 119 - ... all men are equally entitled to the full and free exercise of it, according to the dictates of conscience; and therefore that no man or class of men ought on account of religion to be invested with peculiar emoluments or privileges, nor subjected to any penalties or disabilities', unless under color of religion the preservation of equal liberty and the existence of the State be manifestly endangered.
Página 227 - Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.
Página 95 - I am a sort of mongrel between the State and the United States; called an officer of some rank under the latter, and yet thrust out to get a livelihood in the former — perhaps in a petty mayor's or county court.
Página 49 - The President of the United States would be an officer elected by the people for four years ; the king of Great Britain is a perpetual and hereditary prince ; the one would be amenable to personal punishment and disgrace ; the person of the other is sacred and inviolable. The one would have a qualified negative upon the acts of the legislative body ; the other has an absolute negative. The one would have a right to command the military and naval forces of the nation...
Página 14 - I will tell you plainly that a certain set of aristocrats, for we have such monsters here, finding that their execrable system cannot be reared on such foundations, have to this time kept us at bay on the first line, which declares all men to be born equally free and independent.