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from: Cambridge University Press
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 200
EAN: 9780521892988
ISBN: 0521892988
Label: Cambridge University Press
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 392
Publication Date: October 30, 2003
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Sales Rank: 981464
Studio: Cambridge University Press
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This book examines the famous Jefferson document that foreshadowed the Constitution's guarantee of religious liberty, the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. Jefferson wrote the Virginia Statute and shepherded it through a decade-long struggle for adoption. The statute reflects two key Revolutionary principles: absolute freedom of religious conscience and the separation of church and state.
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The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, Its Evolutionand Consequences in American History edited by Merrill D. Peterson and Robert C. Vaughan is a book that should be on the shelf of those who read and want to understand why it was so important to overthrow the Established Church... the Anglican Church... and the laying of a new foundation of civil and religious life.
As we all should know it was Thomas Jefferson who realized that in order to have a just and free government, you had ... Read More
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