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Establishing Religious Freedom - Jefferson's Statute in Virginia (Paperback)
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Establishing Religious Freedom - Jefferson's Statute in Virginia (Paperback)
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The significance of the Virginia Statute for Establishing Religious
Freedom goes far beyond the borders of the Old Dominion. Its
influence ultimately extended to the Supreme Court's interpretation
of the separation of church and state. In his latest book, Thomas
Buckley tells the story of the statute, beginning with its
background in the struggles of the colonial dissenters against an
oppressive Church of England. When the Revolution forced the issue
of religious liberty, Thomas Jefferson drafted his statute and
James Madison guided its passage through the state legislature.
Displacing an established church by instituting religious freedom,
the Virginia statute provided the most substantial guarantees of
religious liberty of any state in the new nation. The statute's
implementation, however, proved to be problematic. Faced with a
mandate for strict separation of church and state--and in an
atmosphere of sweeping evangelical Christianity--Virginians clashed
over numerous issues, including the legal ownership of church
property, the incorporation of churches and religious groups,
Sabbath observance, protection for religious groups, Bible reading
in school, and divorce laws. Such debates pitted churches against
one another and engaged Virginia's legal system for a century and a
half. Fascinating history in itself, the effort to implement
Jefferson's statute has even broader significance in its
anticipation of the conflict that would occupy the whole country
after the Supreme Court nationalized the religion clause of the
First Amendment in the 1940s.
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