 | Henry Campbell Black - Constitutional law - 1923 - 564 pages
...subject of religious liberty, and incorporated the following as the 38th article of the constitution : "Whereas we are required by the benevolent principles...wherewith the bigotry and ambition of weak and wicked priests and princes have scourged mankind, this convention doth further, in the name and by the authority... | |
 | University of the State of New York. Division of Archives and History - New York (State) - 1926 - 390 pages
...valid, unless made under the authority and with the consent of the Legislature of this State. XXXVIII. AND WHEREAS we are required by the benevolent principles...wherewith the bigotry and ambition of weak and wicked priests and princes have scourged mankind: This Convention doth further, in the name and by the authority... | |
 | Arlin M. Adams, Charles J. Emmerich - Law - 1990 - 200 pages
...or teachers except those of their own profession. CONSTITUTION OF NEW YORK, APRIL 20, 1777 XXXVIII. And whereas we are required, by the benevolent principles...wherewith the bigotry and ambition of weak and wicked priests and princes have scourged mankind, this convention doth further, in the name and by the authority... | |
 | Stephen L. Schechter - Business & Economics - 1990 - 478 pages
...valid, unless made under the authority, and with the consent of the legislature of this State. XXXVIII. AND WHEREAS we are required by the benevolent principles...wherewith the bigotry and ambition of weak and wicked priests and princes, have scourged mankind: This Convention doth further, in the name and by the authority... | |
 | Jacob Rader Marcus - History - 1996 - 668 pages
...are repugnant to this constitution, be, and they hereby are, abrogated and rejected. . . . XXXVIII. And whereas we are required, by the benevolent principles...wherewith the bigotry and ambition of weak and wicked priests and princes have scourged mankind, this convention doth further, in the name and by the authority... | |
 | Daniel C. Palm - Political Science - 1997 - 230 pages
...sects."15 New York's constitution of 1777 explained its guarantee of free exercise in similar terms: And whereas we are required, by the benevolent principles...wherewith the bigotry and ambition of weak and wicked priests and princes have scourged mankind, . . . the free exercise and enjoyment of religious profession... | |
 | Marc W. Kruman - History - 1997 - 244 pages
...repugnant to the peace and safety of the State."76 New York's founding text contended that the need "to guard against that spiritual oppression and intolerance...wherewith the bigotry and ambition of weak and wicked priests and princes have scourged mankind"77 required protection of religious freedom. The Massachusetts... | |
 | Isaac Kramnick, Robert Laurence Moore, R. Laurence Moore - History - 1997 - 196 pages
...denomination of Christians." The absence of religious tests would, the New York constitution claimed, "guard against that spiritual oppression and intolerance...wherewith the bigotry and ambition of weak and wicked priests and princes have scourged mankind. " In Philadelphia the principles of Virginia and New York... | |
 | Harry S. Stout, D. G. Hart - Religion - 1998 - 513 pages
...the new 1777 state constitution of New York put it, the Revolution was very much designed to end the "spiritual oppression and intolerance wherewith the bigotry and ambition of weak and wicked priests" had "scourged mankind."2 If truth be told, most of the Founding Fathers, enlightened men in... | |
 | jeffrey s gurock - History - 1998 - 516 pages
...Christianity, or any Christian church, de facto as well as de jure, the constitution went on to assert that, whereas we are required, by the benevolent principles...wherewith the bigotry and ambition of weak and wicked priests and princes have scourged mankind, this convention doth further, in the name and by the authority... | |
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AND WHEREAS we are required by the benevolent principles of rational liberty, not only to expel civil tyranny, but also to guard against that spiritual oppression and intolerance wherewith the bigotry and ambition of weak and wicked priests and princes... 
