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Book Wellspring of Liberty

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  • Author : John A. Ragosta
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2010-05-19
  • ISBN : 0199779929
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Wellspring of Liberty written by John A. Ragosta and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-19 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the American Revolution, no colony more assiduously protected its established church or more severely persecuted religious dissenters than Virginia. Both its politics and religion were dominated by an Anglican establishment, and dissenters from the established Church of England were subject to numerous legal infirmities and serious persecution. By 1786, no state more fully protected religious freedom. This profound transformation, as John A. Ragosta shows in this book, arose not from a new-found cultural tolerance. Rather, as the Revolution approached, Virginia's political establishment needed the support of the religious dissenters, primarily Presbyterians and Baptists, for the mobilization effort. Dissenters seized this opportunity to insist on freedom of religion in return for their mobilization. Their demands led to a complex and extended negotiation in which the religious establishment slowly and grudgingly offered just enough reforms to maintain the crucial support of the dissenters. After the war, when dissenters' support was no longer needed, the establishment leaders sought to recapture control, but found they had seriously miscalculated: wartime negotiations had politicized the dissenters. As a result dissenters' demands for the separation of church and state triumphed over the establishment's efforts and Jefferson's Statute for Establishing Religious Freedom was adopted. Historians and the Supreme Court have repeatedly noted that the foundation of the First Amendment's protection of religious liberty lies in Virginia's struggle, turning primarily to Jefferson and Madison to understand this. In Wellspring of Liberty, John A. Ragosta argues that Virginia's religious dissenters played a seminal, and previously underappreciated, role in the development of the First Amendment and in the meaning of religious freedom as we understand it today.

Book Institutional History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century

Download or read book Institutional History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century written by Philip Alexander Bruce and published by New York ; London : G.P. Putnam's sons. This book was released on 1910 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Virginia

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Book The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography

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Book Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography

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Book Bulletin of the Virginia State Library

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Book A Bibliography of Virginia

Download or read book A Bibliography of Virginia written by Earl Gregg Swem and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Bibliography of Virginia      Titles of books in the Virginia State Library which relate to Virginia and Virginians  the titles of those books written by Virginians  and of those printed in Virginia  but not including     published official documents

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Book Virginiana in the Printed Book Collections of the Virginia State Library  Subjects

Download or read book Virginiana in the Printed Book Collections of the Virginia State Library Subjects written by Virginia State Library and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of the Protestant Episcopal Church

Download or read book A History of the Protestant Episcopal Church written by Raymond Wolf Albright and published by New York : Macmillan. This book was released on 1964 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Its formative beginnings in England, its growth and development in the New World, and its place among the religious denominations of America.

Book Moderates in Crisis

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Book Inventory of the Church Archives of West Virginia

Download or read book Inventory of the Church Archives of West Virginia written by Historical Records Survey (U.S.). West Virginia and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Virginiana in the Printed Book Collections of the Virginia State Library

Download or read book Virginiana in the Printed Book Collections of the Virginia State Library written by Virginia State Library and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

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Book The Catholic Encyclopedia

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