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The significance of the virginia statute for establishing religious freedom teaches far beyond the borders of the old dominion. Its influence ultimately extended to the Supreme Courts interpretation of the separation of church and state. In his latest book, todays speaker tells the story of that statute, beginning with its background and the struggle of colonial dissenters with an oppressive church of england. Displacing an established church by instituting religious freedom, the virginia statute divided the most substantial guarantees of religious freedom in any state of the new nation. The effort to implement jeffersons statute has even broader significance in anticipation of the conflict that would occupy the whole court after the Supreme Court nationalized the religion clause in the First Amendment in the 1940s. Thomas e. Buckley sj is currently in the university of los angeles. He taught in the History Department there for 22 years after receiving his doctorate from university of

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