M&D Deep Duck Read. 1786

[Joseph Tracy]

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On Jan 6, 2015, at 4:58 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> 1786. Virginia law on separation of Church and state.
> 
> Another resonance to setting the telling of the story in 1786. This
> law, Jefferson's work mostly, became the basis of the Constitutional
> law of separation.
> 
> if one aspect of your novel is to delineate Enlightenment science
> drawing a Line in a new world
> full of various religious creeds and a cultural religious worldview,
> this legal line matters for democracy, to state the banal.
> 
> Yet, in these United States in 2015 it is still not fully in
> effect--at the highest levels.
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