The General Assembly's attempt to pass a bill of attainder against Josiah
Philips during the Revolutionary War came up in the Virginia Ratification
Convention in June 1788. More than a few people regarded it as
unconstitutional. Some of the debates, if memory serves me correctly, gave
inaccurate accounts of that episode.

Brent Tarter
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On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 11:39 AM John RAGOSTA <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Leslie Katz
> >
> > email: lesliek [at] mymts [dot] net
> >
> > 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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