| Larry Witham - 2005 - 356 páginas
...problematic for the teaching of evolution, let alone sectarian religion, in tax-supported schools: "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money...for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical."27 By unseating the religious elites, Jefferson also sought to... | |
| Loren P. Beth - 2002 - 192 páginas
...carte blanche to any state to establish any religion, which principle Jefferson said "hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world, and through all time."27 Madison agreed.28 The Act for Religious Freedom must be interpreted in the light of what its... | |
| Alan Mittleman, Robert Licht, Jonathan D. Sarna - 2002 - 396 páginas
...Religious Freedom" in Virginia, written by Jefferson, which stated that compelling a man to contribute money "for the propagation of opinions, which he disbelieves, is sinful and tyrannical." To that, he added a quote from Madison's Memorial and Remonstrance, in which Madison opposed a bill... | |
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