Madison's lifelong obsession with religious liberty produced a constant refinement in what he wrote and in the laws he passed. The First Amendment is much shorter than the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. It benefits from four years of thought about how to edit it, and from the Constitution's not having to overcome the burden of a previous establishment.
Any alternative argument must have Madison flip-flopping on religious freedom, and I don't think there is any evidence to support such a claim. From his first success persuading Mason to put religious liberty into the Virginia Bill of Rights, Madison's views on what the law should be never varied.
Ed Darrell
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In a message dated 7/29/2005 4:31:28 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:Everybody's included, in Jefferson's view. Not tolerationOkay. Now that evidences the possibility that Virginia was pluralist rather than tolerant. But the Virginia Statute is not part of the Constitution or the First Amendment. So how is it to be shown that the same result obtained from other provisions of a different document?Jim HendersonSenior CounselACLJ_______________________________________________
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