Religious Liberty and Toleration

Tf s most succinct statement on religious freedom, cast as an 

To the Danbury Baptist Association, Jan. i, 1802 Religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God. . . [and] the legislative powers of government reach actions only. . . thus building a wall of separation between church and State.  

To Rev. Samuel Miller, Jan. 23, 1808 To Mrs. Samuel H. Smith, Aug. 6, 1816 To Mathew Carey, Nov. ii, 1816 To William Short, Aug. 4, 1820 Saving jfesus from organized Christianity To Dr. Thomas Cooper, Nov. 2, 1822 Critique of Christian fanaticism 

And though we well know that this Assembly, elected by the people for their ordinary purposes of legislation only, have no power to restrain the acts of succeeding Assemblies, constituted with powers equal to our own, and that therefore to declare this act to be irrevocable would be of no effect in law yet we are free to declare, and do declare, that the rights hereby asserted are of the natural rights of mankind, and that if any act shall be hereafter 

The different religions received into that state  

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Simonutti, Luisa (1996), Between Political Loyalty and Religious Liberty Political Theory and Toleration in Huguenot Thought in the Epoch of Bayle , History of Political Thought, 17 (4), pp. 522-54-... 

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