Leslie: In terms of incorporation and Madison, he actually votes in favor of the incorporation as a means to discourage support for the General Assessment, but he writes to Jefferson that he thought the incorporation was a mistake and he later attacks incorporation when done in a discriminatory manner (see his veto of incorporation when president). Good luck, John
Historian, Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello
Fellow,Virginia Humanities
> On February 19, 2019 at 12:11 PM Leslie Katz <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Dear John Ragosta,
>
> Thank you very much for taking the trouble to reply to my query.
>
> I'm guessing that Madison wouldn't have described an unadopted effort as
> a violation of the Declaration, but rather as an attempted violation of it.
>
> I'm further guessing that Madison was referring to some specific statute
> or statutes.
>
> As to the incorporation of the Episcopal Church, I've now found an Act
> of the legislative session beginning in OCT 1784, incorporating the
> Protestant Episcopal Church, and I assume that that's the Act to which
> you were referring.
>
> I'll now see if I can find anything that Madison had to say specifically
> about that Act.
>
> (I should add that I'm writing from the wilds of Canada, with my only
> access to source materials being whatever I can find on the Web, so to a
> large extent my searching is hit and miss!)
>
> Thank you again,
>
> Leslie Katz
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