Among the things that Madison was referring to was the effort in 1784-85 to adopt a General Assessment to support religion. While this was not finally adopted, a resolution was approved in the House of Delegates, and it was only defeated through extraordinary efforts by Madison, religious dissenters, and others. Madison would also likely have listed the incorporation of the Episcopal Church in the same period, but as I have discussed elsewhere, this was more complicated.

John Ragosta

Historian, Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello
Fellow,Virginia Humanities


> On February 19, 2019 at 10:38 AM Leslie Katz <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> 
> I've discovered that James Madison wrote in 1788 that the VA Declaration
> of Rights had been "violated in every instance where it has been opposed
> to a popular current." I've tried to find a discussion of the particular
> instances that Madison had in mind when he made that statement, but
> haven't been successful.
> 
> I'd be grateful for any information as to such a discussion.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> 
> Leslie Katz
> 
> 
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> 
> Leslie Katz
> 
> email: lesliek [at] mymts [dot] net
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> Please visit http://ssrn.com/author=1164057 to find hyperlinks
> 
> to papers that I’ve written on literary and legal topics
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