| William Lee Miller - 2003 - 300 str.
...but from his Notes on the State of l'irginia:"Uut it does me no injury for my neighbour to say that there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." The orthodox have historically responded: But it does do me and my children and my neighbors and the... | |
| Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - 2003 - 852 str.
...American of 1 8 1 7, whose character was better expressed by Jefferson's other famous pronouncement: God."31 This was an epochal change. "For the first time in history, great bodies of men turned away... | |
| Merrill D. Peterson, Robert C. Vaughan - 2003 - 396 str.
...such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there arc twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." The lawyer in Jefferson insisted that a distinction be drawn between belief and action; the state can... | |
| William F. Jr Cox - 2004 - 558 str.
...Virginia (1781) explained the principle this way: "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no...god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg" (Koch & Peden, 1972, p. 275). Thus it can be said that the upbringing of one's child is a natural or... | |
| Ralph C. Wood - 2005 - 296 str.
...sentiments in his Notes on Virginia, declaring that "the legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no...God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." 24. Quoted by Richard T. Hughes, How Christian Faith Can Sustain the Life of the Mind (Grand Rapids.... | |
| David M. Ricci - 2004 - 326 str.
...the matter even more bluntly. "The legitimate powers of government," he said, "extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no...or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."85 In short, why should voters instruct government to make any law concerning the practice of... | |
| Joy Hakim - 2003 - 438 str.
...described what we call freedom of religion. "The legitimate powers of government extend only to such acts as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury...God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg," wrote Jefferson in Notes on Virginia. Still, a government without a state religion seemed risky. It... | |
| L. Edward VanHoose - 2004 - 292 str.
...might fall into the hands of his opponents. His rather mild statement, at least by today's standards: "It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there...god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg," 17 was attacked with such vehemence that Jefferson was labeled the "Infidel from Virginia." As a consequence,... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 2004 - 178 str.
...to our God. The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there...God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. Is this then our freedom of religion? And are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books... | |
| Susan Dunn - 2004 - 396 str.
...tolerance did not help matters for Republicans. His remark in his Notes on the State of Virginia — that "it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there...god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg," a remark that subversively reduced divine revelation to a matter of opinion — was interpreted by... | |
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