Baptist Federalism: Religious Liberty and Public Virtue in the Early Republic
In his canonized letter to the Danbury Baptists in 1802, President Thomas Jefferson famously described the relationship between the church and civil government in the First Amendment as a “wall of separation.” According to Jefferson, who that same New Year’s Day welcomed Elder John Leland and his “m...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2021
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2021, Volume: 63, Issue: 3, Pages: 440-460 |
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Baptists
/ Religious freedom
/ USA
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| IxTheo Classification: | KBQ North America SA Church law; state-church law |
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| Summary: | In his canonized letter to the Danbury Baptists in 1802, President Thomas Jefferson famously described the relationship between the church and civil government in the First Amendment as a “wall of separation.” According to Jefferson, who that same New Year’s Day welcomed Elder John Leland and his “mammoth” Cheshire cheese to the White House, he and his Baptist bedfellows shared a common cause in religious liberty. He assured them,Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should “make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” thus building a wall of separation between Church... |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csaa035 |