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Conscience, right of

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Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

As used in some constitutional provisions, this phrase is equivalent to religious liberty or freedom of conscience. Co.m. v. Lesh-er, 17 Serg. & R. (Pat) 155; State v. Cummings, 36 Mo. 263. Conscientia dicitur a con et seio, quasl scire cum Deo. 1 Coke, 100. Conscience is called from con and seio, to know, as it were, with God.

Defined under Conscience in Black's Law Dictionary.