John A Ragosta

Wellspring of Liberty

How Virginia's Religious Dissenters Helped Win the American Revolution and Secured Religious Liberty

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Produktbeschreibung

"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 JACKET.

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Virginia's dissenters, primarily Presbyterians and Baptists, demanded religious liberty in return for supporting the American Revolution. The resulting negotiations not only brought Virginia, and America, religious freedom, but politicized dissenters and republicanized the polity. Importantly, dissenters demanded strict separation of church and state, rejecting the notion of a "Christian nation."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9780195388060
• ISBN-10: 0195388062
• Artikelnr.: 29022147

Autorenporträt

John Ragosta is an Instructor at the University of Virginia School of Law and Adjunct Professor, Randolph College

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1.: Virginians Dissent: Snakes, Hornets, and Brimstone
2.: Negotiating Support for the War and Religious Freedom
3.: British Failures and Plans for Success
4.: Mobilizing Support: Did the Dissenters Fight?
5.: After the War: A Resurgent Establishment and the End of Compulsion
6.: What Did They Fight, and Bargain, For?
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index