Virginia Recognition of Religious Freedom, 1777, Fredericksburg, VA - Civil Rights Memorials on Waymarking.com

"Religious Liberty
From a meeting in Fredericksburg,
Janurary 13-17, 1777.
of a committee of revisors
appointed by the General Assembly
of Virginia, composed of Thomas
Jefferson, George Mason, Edmund
Pendleton, George Wythe and Thomas
Ludwell Lee to 'settle the plan of
operation and to distrieute the
work' - evolved

The Statute of Religious Freedom
Authored by
Thomas Jefferson

In this document
the United Statesof America
made probably its greatest
contribution to
Government recognition of Religious Freedom."

from plaque
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom was written in 1779 by Thomas Jefferson. In 1786, the Virginia General Assembly enacted the statute into the state's law. The Statute for Religious Freedom is one of only three accomplishments Jefferson instructed be put in his epitaph.

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