In this period, decisive elements of early modern toleration discourse were formed: the distinction between church authority and individual religious conscience on the one hand and the separation of religious and secular authority on the other.
Second, participants made simplistic distinctions between two types of men: between 'well-meaning men' or 'men of conscience' on the one hand, and those 'other' men who assault women on the other.
He's wrong only in that he attempts to justify voting one's conscience on strategic grounds.
Perhaps I am completely naïve about politics, but this article did not even mention the possibility that one of our elected representatives might vote his or her conscience on this issue.
Please clear up your conscience on this.
He is the country's conscience on its gas-guzzling ways.
Who crafted our collective conscience on the parliament attack case?
But I'm O.K. with my conscience on this vote".
& the International Committe of Conscience on Vietnam of the Fellowship of Reconciliation.
So it was surprising to hear him invoke his conscience on Wednesday.
He has refused to allow Republican legislators to vote their conscience on a veto override.
