Liberty Fund Books
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Sacred Rights of Conscience, The
Selected Readings on Religious Liberty and Church-State Relations in the American Founding
Edited by Daniel L. Dreisbach and Mark David Hall
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Aug 2009 |
Notes |
Introduction, headnotes, suggestions for further reading, appendixes, selected bibliography, index. |
| Format | Size Pages | ISBN-10 ISBN-13 | Price | |
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| Cloth | 8.5 x 11 | 0-86597-714-3 978-0-86597-714-3 | $30.00 | |
| Paperback | 8.5 x 11 | 0-86597-715-1 978-0-86597-715-0 | $14.50 |
Description
The Sacred Rights of Conscience provides students and scholars a rich collection of primary sources that illuminate the discussions and debates about religious liberty in the American founding era. This compilation of primary documents provides a thorough and balanced examination of the evolving relationship between public religion and American culture, from pre-colonial biblical and European sources to the early nineteenth century, to allow the reader to explore the social and political forces that defined the concept of religious liberty and shaped American church-state relations.Including material that has been previously unavailable or hard to find, The Sacred Rights of Conscience contains original documents from both public and private papers, such as constitutions, statutes, legislative resolutions, speeches, sermons, newspapers, letters, and diary entries. These documents provide a vivid reminder that religion was a dynamic factor in shaping American social, legal, and political culture and that there has been a struggle since the inception of the Republic to define the prudential and constitutional role of religion in public culture.
Daniel L. Dreisbach is William E. Simon Fellow in Religion and Public Life for the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University and professor in the School of Public Affairs at American University in Washington, D.C.
Mark David Hall is Herbert Hoover Distinguished Professor of Political Science at George Fox University.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations xixINTRODUCTION: The Pursuit of Religious Liberty in America xxi
PART I
Antecedents of the Principles Governing Religious Liberty and Church-State Relations in America CHAPTER ONE KING JAMES VERSION OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES 4 EUROPEAN INFLUENCES 15 Creating the Principles Governing Religious Liberty and Articles, Laws, and Orders, Virginia, CHAPTER THREE John Winthrop, A Modell of Christian Framing the Constitutional Principles Governing Religious Liberty and CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FIVE
Biblical and European Heritages 3
Genesis 1:26–27; 3:1–24 4
Exodus 1:15–21; 18:13–27; 20:1–17 6
Leviticus 25:10 7
Leviticus 26:1–46 8
Deuteronomy 13:1–5; 17:1–20 9
I Samuel 8 11
II Chronicles 7:14 12
Proverbs 14:34; 29:2 12
Isaiah 49:22–23; 60:12 12
Matthew 5:38–48; 22:15–22 12
Luke 22:38 13
John 18:36 13
Acts 5:27–29 13
Romans 13:1–8 14
II Corinthians 6:14–18 14
I Peter 2:9–3:6 14
St. Augustine, City of God, 410–26 16
St. Augustine, On the Correction of the
Donatists, c. 417 16
St. Thomas Aquinas, On the Government of
Princes, 1267 17
Martin Luther, Temporal Authority: To
What Extent It Should Be Obeyed,
1523 19
The Schleitheim Confession of Faith, 1527 21
John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian
Religion, 1559 24
Act of Supremacy, 1534 27
Act of Uniformity, 1559 27
Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of
England, 1562, and 1801 American
Revisions 27
Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of
Ecclesiastical Polity, 1590s 30
The First London Baptist Confession of
Faith, 1646 34
Westminster Confession of Faith, 1646,
and 1788 American Revisions 36
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651 39
William Penn, The Great Case of Liberty
of Conscience, 1670 42
John Locke, A Letter on Toleration, 1689 47
John Locke, The Second Treatise, 1690 47
Toleration Act, 1689 51
John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, Cato’s
Letters: Letter 66, 1721 55
Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws, 1748 60
William Blackstone, Commentaries on the
Laws of England, 1769 62
Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776 76
Recommendations for Further Reading 79
PART II
Church-State Relations in Colonial America
CHAPTER TWO
Fundamental Laws, Declarations of
Rights, and Public Acts on Ecclesiastical
Establishments and Religious Liberty
in Colonial America 83
1610–11 84
The Mayflower Compact, 1620 86
Providence Agreement, 1637 88
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut,
1638–39 88
The Laws and Liberties of Massachusetts,
1647 89
Selected Laws of Rhode Island, 1647 103
An Act Concerning Religion, Maryland,
1649 103
Provisional Regulations for the Colonists
of New Netherland, 1624 107
Dutch West India Company Instructions,
1656 107
Flushing Remonstrance, 1657 107
Dutch West India Company Instructions,
1663 107
Massachusetts General Court, An Act Made
at a General Court, Held at Boston, the
20th of October, 1658 110
Massachusetts General Court, A Declaration
of the General Court of the
Massachusetts Holden at Boston in
New-England, October 18, 1659.
Concerning the Execution of Two
Quakers 110
An Act for the Suppressing the Quakers,
Virginia, 1659 113
Charter of Rhode Island and Providence
Plantations, 1663 114
William Penn, Frame of Government of
Pennsylvania, 1682 116
William Penn, Laws Agreed Upon in
England, &c., 1682 116
The Fundamental Constitutions of
Carolina, 1669 119
Recommendations for Further Reading 121
Letters, Tracts, and Sermons on Religious
Liberty and Duty in Colonial America 122
Charitie, 1630 123
John Winthrop, Little Speech on Liberty,
1645 123
John Cotton, A Discourse about Civil
Government, 1637–39 133
Roger Williams, Mr. Cottons Letter Lately
Printed, Examined and Answered, 1644 146
Roger Williams, The Bloudy Tenent, of
Persecution, for Cause of Conscience,
1644 146
Roger Williams, Letter to the Town of
Providence, 1654 146
Nathaniel Ward, The Simple Cobbler of
Aggawam in America, 1646 155
The Cambridge Platform, 1648 165
Elisha Williams, The Essential Rights and
Liberties of Protestants, 1744 173
Charles Chauncy, Civil Magistrates Must
Be Just, Ruling in the Fear of God, 1747 179
Samuel Davies, State of Religion among the
Protestant Dissenters in Virginia, 1751 195
Samuel Adams, The Rights of the
Colonists, a List of Violations of Rights
and a Letter of Correspondence, 1772 202
Isaac Backus, An Appeal to the Public for
Religious Liberty, 1773 204
Recommendations for Further Reading 212
PART III
Church-State Relations in the American Founding
The Continental and Confederation
Congresses and Church-State Relations 215
John Adams, Letter to Abigail Adams,
September 16, 1774 216
Congressional Resolution Calling for a
Day of Public Humiliation, Fasting,
and Prayer, June 1775 217
Rules and Orders for the Continental
Army, June 1775 218
Congressional Chaplains, 1775–88 218
The Declaration of Independence,
July 4, 1776 220
Congressional Resolution Calling for a
Day of Thanksgiving, November 1, 1777 222
The Articles of Confederation and
Perpetual Union, November 1777 224
Congressional Resolution Recommending
the Promotion of Morals, October
1778 225
Congressional Resolution Calling for a
Day of Fasting, Humiliation, and Prayer,
March 20, 1779 226
Congressional Resolution Calling for a
Day of Thanksgiving and Prayer,
October 1780 228
Texts Concerning the National Seal,
August 1776 and June 1782 229
Aitken’s Bible, January 21, 1781, and
September 12, 1782 231
Congressional Resolution Calling for a
Day of Thanksgiving, October 18,
1783 235
An Ordinance for the Government of the
Territory of the United States, North
West of the River Ohio [Northwest
Ordinance], July 1787 236
Recommendations for Further Reading 238
State Constitutions, Laws, and Papers on
Church and State in Revolutionary
America 239
Virginia Declaration of Rights, 1776 241
Pennsylvania Constitutions, 1776 and 1790 241
South Carolina Constitution, 1778 243
Massachusetts Constitution, 1780 245
A Bill Concerning Religion, Virginia, 1779 247
A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom,
Virginia, 1779 and 1786 250
A Bill for Punishing Disturbers of
Religious Worship and Sabbath
Breakers, Virginia, 1786 251
A Bill for Appointing Days of Public
Fasting and Thanksgiving, Virginia, 1779 252
A Bill Establishing a Provision for Teachers
of the Christian Religion, Virginia, 1784 252
Resolutions and Address by the Maryland
House of Delegates, January 8, 1785 253
B. F. Morris, State Constitutional
Provisions and Proclamations Related to
Religion 257
Recommendations for Further Reading 265
CHAPTER SIX
Petitions, Essays, and Sermons on Church
and State in Revolutionary America 266
Petition of the German Congregation of
Culpeper, Virginia, October 1776 267
Petition of Sundry Inhabitants of Prince
Edward County, Virginia, October 11,
1776 268
Memorial of the Presbytery of Hanover,
Virginia, October 24, 1776 269
Memorial from Clergy of the Established
Church, Virginia, November 8, 1776 270
Memorial of the Presbytery of Hanover,
Virginia, June 3, 1777 272
Worcestriensis, Number IV, September 4,
1776 273
Isaac Backus, A Declaration of the Rights,
of the Inhabitants of the State of
Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England,
1779 276
John Witherspoon, Sermon Delivered at a
Public Thanksgiving after Peace, 1782 278
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of