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Every person shall be at liberty to speak , write or publish his opinions on any subject , being only civilly responsible for the abuse of that privilege ; and no law shall ever be passed curtailing the liberty of speech or of the press . Intent upon this innocent amusement , Noah put his feet on the table-cloth ; and pulled Oliver 's hair ; and twitched his ears ; and expressed his opinion that he was a ' sneak ' ; and furthermore announced his intention of coming to see him hanged , whenever that desirable event should take place ; and entered upon various topics of petty annoyance , like a malicious and ill-conditioned charity-boy as he was . " 348 On further reflection , Judge Roane noted , he had changed his opinion : " I / Page 73 / now think that the judiciary may and ought not only to refuse to execute a law expressly repugnant to the Constitution ; but also one which is , by a plain and natural construction , in opposition to the fundamental principles thereof . And so does he think that his opinions are better ; and so do madmen . Dr. Mendeloff stated his opinion that this representation is false and that his opinion is consistent with the consensus of informed medical opinion ( Tr . According to a published statement by Mgr Satolli , the conditions were in this form : " Dr. McGlynn had presented a brief statement of his opinions on moral-economic matters , and it was judged not contrary to the doctrine constantly taught by the Church , and as recently confirmed by the Holy Father in the encyclical ' Rerum Novarum ' . The judge quickly reversed his opinion and went forward with the case of sexual abuse . Although there had been earlier scientific expeditions , none , in his opinion , had supplied adequate portrayals of either subjects . SECTION I. Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will , but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds ; that Almighty God hath created the mind free , and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint ; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments , or burthens , or by civil incapacitations , tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness , and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion , who being lord both of body and mind , yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either , as was in his Almighty power to do , but to extend it by its influence on reason alone ; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers , civil as well as ecclesiastical , who , being themselves but fallible and uninspired men , have assumed dominion over the faith of others , setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible , and as such endeavoring to impose them on others , hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time : That to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors , is sinful and tyrannical ; that even the forcing him to support this or that teacher of his own religious persuasion , is depriving him of the comfortable liberty of giving his contributions to the particular pastor whose morals he would make his pattern , and whose powers he feels most persuasive to righteousness ; and is withdrawing from the ministry those temporary rewards , which proceeding from an approbation of their personal conduct , are an additional incitement to earnest and unremitting labours for the instruction of mankind ; that our civil rights have no dependance on our religious opinions , any more than our opinions in physics or geometry ; that therefore the proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument , unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion , is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which , in common with his fellow citizens , he has a natural right ; that it tends also to corrupt the principles of that very religion it is meant to encourage , by bribing , with a monopoly of worldly honours and emoluments , those who will externally profess and conform to it ; that though indeed these are criminal who do not withstand such temptation , yet neither are those innocent who lay the bait in their way ; that the opinions of men are not the object of civil government , nor under its jurisdiction ; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency is a dangerous falacy , which at once destroys all religious liberty , because he being of course judge of that tendency will make his opinions the rule of judgment , and approve or condemn the sentiments of others only as they shall square with or differ from his own ; that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order ; and finally , that truth is great and will prevail if left to herself ; that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error , and has nothing to fear from the conflict unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons , free argument and debate ; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them .