The rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind…

Thomas Jefferson
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The rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind, and ... if any act shall be ... passed to repeal [an act granting those rights] or to narrow its operation, such act will be an infringement of natural right.
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