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| 4/4/15
| Ian Hanchett
Posted on 04/05/2015 9:04:28 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: GeronL
Thomas Jefferson believed there should be a “wall between church and state.” He did not believe people should pay taxes to support any church. Jefferson worked to get rid of laws that kept the church in power in Virginia. He had the support of Virginia's Quakers, Presbyterians and Baptists.
Jefferson wrote the “Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom.” The bill said that “no man shall be compelled (forced) to frequent (go to) or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever.” This was a new idea at the time. In 1779, the bill was sent to the Virginia Assembly. It did not become a law. But it brought together Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Madison agreed with Jefferson.
Jefferson left for Paris in 1784. He was the US foreign minister to France. It was up to James Madison to get the bill made into a law. Madison presented the bill to the Virginia Assembly. In 1786, the bill passed with only a few changes. Madison sent word to Jefferson in Paris.
When the bill passed, Virginia became the first state to separate church and state.
Statute of Virginia for religious freedom at monticello.org
(II.)
Be it enacted by General Assembly that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief, but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of Religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge or affect their civil capacities.
(III.)
And though we well know that this Assembly elected by the people for the ordinary purposes of Legislation only, have no power to restrain the acts of succeeding Assemblies constituted with powers equal to our own, and that therefore to declare this act irrevocable would be of no effect in law; yet we are free to declare, and do declare that the rights hereby asserted, are of the natural rights of mankind, and that if any act shall be hereafter passed to repeal the present or to narrow its operation, such act will be an infringement of natural right.
Exd: ARCHIBALD CARY S.S.
Exd. BENJ HARRISON Sp HD
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posted on
04/05/2015 4:00:46 PM PDT
by
higgmeister
( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
To: higgmeister
I don’t think Massachusetts ever repealed theirs, although they stopped enforcing it a long long time ago
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posted on
04/05/2015 5:13:20 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(CLEARLY CRUZ 2016)
To: cotton1706; Black Agnes
And she claims recently to have come out as a Christian.....come out?
like it took courage....weird
What makes women like this so common?
Maybe more fulfillment along the lines of her surname might help her enjoy life and dump the bitterness....she’s only 42....lotsa bloom left
It must suck to be a bitter unwanted woman
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posted on
04/05/2015 10:47:03 PM PDT
by
wardaddy
(Dems hate western civilization and GOP are cowards...We are headed to a dark place)
To: cotton1706
Oh lookee Ms Cocks hangs with Miss 1000 points of bullshite herself......color me shocked..lol
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posted on
04/05/2015 10:57:31 PM PDT
by
wardaddy
(Dems hate western civilization and GOP are cowards...We are headed to a dark place)
To: higgmeister
“Here was buried
Thomas Jefferson
Author of the Declaration of American Independence
of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom
& Father of the University of Virginia”
The very inscription he specified. Currently reading his auto-bio & selected writings. Amazed at how much he managed to DO along with all the correspondence in which he engaged, and this only a percentage of the whole.
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posted on
04/06/2015 3:22:01 AM PDT
by
Titan Magroyne
(What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.)
To: higgmeister
Agreed. However, I did ask if one can reason with leftists. One usually tries to reason before using a brickbat. I think we have tried reason and failed
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