Establishing religious freedom : Jefferson's statute in Virginia /
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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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Establishment : "true churchmen for the most part"
- Toleration : "the free exercise of religion"
- Statute : "establishing religious freedom"
- Property : "to reconcile all the good people"
- Litigation : "nursing fathers to the church"
- Culture : making Virginia "a Christian country"
- Politics : "neither hand nor finger in the pie"
- Education : "Christianity will go in of itself"
- Constitution : "a past that is dead and gone"
- Bible : "to lift humanity."