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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