The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom: Its Evolution and Consequences in American HistoryMerrill D. Peterson, Robert C. Vaughan Cambridge University Press, 30/10/2003 - 392 páginas This book colourfully examines a famous Jeffersonian document which set the precedent for the US Constitution's guarantee of religious liberty. Jefferson wrote the Virginia Statute, shepherded it through a decade-long struggle to adoption, and included it in his epitaph (along with the Declaration of Independence and the founding of the University of Virginia). The Statute's history reflects two key revolutionary principles: absolute freedom of religious conscience; and the separation of church and state. Both principles remain lively topics of debate on the contemporary religious and political scene. Papers collected here were presented at a conference sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy. Among the contributors are several of America's most prominent religious and political historians and experts on jurisprudence. |
Índice
The Virginia Statute Two Hundred Years Later | 1 |
Colonial Religion and Liberty of Conscience | 23 |
Religious Freedom and the Desacralization of Politics From the English Civil Wars to the Virginia Statute | 43 |
The Political Theology of Thomas Jefferson | 75 |
James Madison the Statute for Religious Freedom and the Crisis of Republican Convictions | 109 |
The Rage of Malice of the Old Serpent Devil The Dissenters and the Making and Remaking of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom | 139 |
Quota of Imps | 171 |
Jeffersonian Religious Liberty and American Pluralism | 201 |
Religion and Civil Virtue in America Jeffersons Statute Reconsidered | 237 |
The Priority of Democracy to Philosophy | 257 |
Madisons Detached Memoranda Then and Now | 283 |
The Supreme Court and the Serpentine Wall | 313 |
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The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom: Its Evolution and Consequences ... Merrill D. Peterson,Robert C. Vaughan Pré-visualização limitada - 1988 |
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Becoming Americans: Our Struggle to be Both Free and Equal Cary Carson Pré-visualização limitada - 1998 |