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. ❋ Unknown (2009)
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." ❋ Unknown (2009)
“The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of equal rights, as well as of Constitutional principles.” ❋ Unknown (2007)
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. ❋ Various (N/A)
Bentinck, and begged to be permitted to resign the chaplainship. ❋ Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1829)
In general the divine who quitted his chaplainship for a benefice and ❋ Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1829)
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. ❋ William Hickling Prescott (1827)
He immediately, unasked, gave the chaplainship (which others always sell advantageously) to his brother's parson at ❋ Horace Walpole (1757)
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. ❋ Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 (1753)
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 ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)
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 lord Capel, he obtained the prebend of Kilroot, in Connor, of about a hundred pounds a year. ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)
Later in his life, James Madison came out against state-paid chaplains, writing, "The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of equal rights, as well as of Constitutional principles." ❋ Unknown (2010)
