At The General Assembly Of The State Of Rhode-island And Providence Plantations, Begun And Holden, ... At ... Within And For The Said State, On ..., I

At The General Assembly Of The State Of Rhode-island And Providence Plantations, Begun And Holden, ... At ... Within And For The Said State, On ..., I PDF

Author: Rhode Island

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781018787916

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Disestablishment and Religious Dissent

Disestablishment and Religious Dissent PDF

Author: Carl H. Esbeck

Publisher: University of Missouri Press

Published: 2019-11-15

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 0826274366

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On May 10, 1776, the Second Continental Congress sitting in Philadelphia adopted a Resolution which set in motion a round of constitution making in the colonies, several of which soon declared themselves sovereign states and severed all remaining ties to the British Crown. In forming these written constitutions, the delegates to the state conventions were forced to address the issue of church-state relations. Each colony had unique and differing traditions of church-state relations rooted in the colony’s peoples, their country of origin, and religion. This definitive volume, comprising twenty-one original essays by eminent historians and political scientists, is a comprehensive state-by-state account of disestablishment in the original thirteen states, as well as a look at similar events in the soon-to-be-admitted states of Vermont, Tennessee, and Kentucky. Also considered are disestablishment in Ohio (the first state admitted from the Northwest Territory), Louisiana and Missouri (the first states admitted from the Louisiana Purchase), and Florida (wrestled from Spain under U.S. pressure). The volume makes a unique scholarly contribution by recounting in detail the process of disestablishment in each of the colonies, as well as religion’s constitutional and legal place in the new states of the federal republic.

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