...statement "all Men should enjoy the fullest Toleration in the Exercise of Religion," with the phrase "all men are equally entitled to the full and free exercise of [religion]." He recognized that religious duties are prior to civil obligations. Madison thus jettisoned...

...and, therefore, can be rescinded. For that portion of the sentence, Madison substituted the following: "all men are equally entitled to the full and free exercise of religion, according to the dictation of conscience" (Cobb, 1968, p. 492). According to some, "The Amendment...

...owe our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, being under the direction of reason and conviction only, not of violence or compulsion, all men are equally...conscience, and therefore that no man or class of men ought OQ account of religion to be invested with peculiar emoluments or privileges, nor subjected to any...

...instead of Mason's "All men should enjoy the fullest toleration in the exercise of religion," he wrote, "all men are equally entitled to the full and free exercise of it." No duties to the Creator should be placed under the arbitrary of human tribunals; religion came from...

...that religion was an unalienable human right, he urged that the article be rephrased to state that "all men are equally entitled to the full and free exercise of [religion according] to the dictates of Conscience; and ... no man or class ought on account of religion...

...language of equality. He proposed, successfully, that Mason's language be replaced by the statement that "all men are equally entitled to the full and free exercise of religion according to the dictates of conscience." Toleration suggested hierarchy, as if it were by...

..."the fullest Toleration in the Exercise of Religion," to be replaced by a provision providing that "all men are equally entitled to the full and free exercise of religion."39 This objection is reinforced by the suggestion that core beliefs are in a sense "constitutive"...

...between the recognition of an absolute right and the toleration of its exercise. His amendment was, " All men are equally entitled to the full and free exercise of religion according to the dictates of conscience," etc. These principles of religious liberty, fathered...

...drafted the constitution for the state, and proposed an amendment (not adopted) which declared that " all men are equally entitled to the full and free exercise " of religion, and was more radical than the similar one offered by George Mason. In 1777, largely, it seems,...