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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.

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

From the end of the Revolution until 1851, Virginia legislature turned down two-thirds of all petitions for divorce. Men and women faced a harsh legal system. In this book, Thomas Buckley explores the lives and legal struggles of those who challenged it

From the end of the Revolution until 1851, Virginia legislature turned down two-thirds of all petitions for divorce. Men and women faced a harsh legal system. In this book, Thomas Buckley explores the lives and legal struggles of those who challenged it.

While Thomas Jefferson's passion for religious freedom is generally viewed as hostility toward religion, the author considers the issue far more complex. In fact, Jefferson recognized the power of religious motivation & tapped into this religious culture in three ways: by invoking God in prayers, by making God the origin of people's rights, & by arguing that Americans must act with God's approbation. He ranked religious freedom among the most important of the natural rights & saw religious pluralism resulting from complete freedom as a positive good. His name has become so attached to the separation church-state that the appreciation has been lost of how much he identified religious beliefs with the impetus toward revolution & the establishment of a new nation. Appendixes. D. Miller