chaplainship

• “James Madison wrote in "Detached Memoranda" that: "The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of equal rights, as well as of Constitutional principles.”

  Christian Right Activists Disrupt Hindu Chaplain In The Senate

• “The establishment of the chaplainship to Congs is a palpable violation of equal rights, as well as of Constitutional principles: The tenets of the chaplains elected by the majority shut the door of worship agst the members whose creeds & consciences forbid a participation in that of the majority.”

  My Masterplan to Remove God from the U.S. Constitution « Publius the Geek

• ““The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of equal rights, as well as of Constitutional principles.””

  Newsweek: 'God Is Not Great'

• “Through the influence of the Duke of Atholl, he was appointed to the Chapel of Ease, at Amulree, in Perthshire, and subsequently to the chaplainship of the 42d Regiment, his commission to the latter office bearing date the 15th of June 1764.”

  The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century

• “In general the divine who quitted his chaplainship for a benefice and”

  The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1

• “Bentinck, and begged to be permitted to resign the chaplainship.”

  The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2

• “Ximenes, thus restored to freedom, and placed in undisturbed possession of his benefice, was desirous of withdrawing from the jurisdiction of his vindictive superior; and not long after effected an exchange for the chaplainship of Siguenza.”

  The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 2

• “He immediately, unasked, gave the chaplainship (which others always sell advantageously) to his brother's parson at”

  The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2

• “When the earl of Kingston found that Mr. Oldham's spirit was too high to accept his offer of chaplainship, he then caressed him as a companion, and gave him an invitation to his house at Holmes-Pierpont, in Nottinghamshire.”

  The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland

• “Swift therefore resolved to enter into the Church, in which he had at first no higher hopes than of the chaplainship to the Factory at Lisbon; but being recommended to”

  Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1

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