User:JimWae/StateChurch

Former state churches in British North America
Vermont - 1807


 * http://www.dinsdoc.com/cobb-1-6.htm
 * http://www.churchstate.org/Articles/Finding_Common_Ground.htm
 * http://www.churchstate.org/article.php?id=5&action=print&PHPSESSID=25791bc8ff4e76678cd3c0b33becdfed
 * http://www.bjconline.org/resources/sermons/060709_walker_pluralism.htm
 * http://www.bjconline.org/resources/
 * http://members.tripod.com/~candst/cnstntro.htm
 * http://www.bjcpa.org/Pages/Resources/Pubs/Pluralismsermon.html
 * http://www.bjconline.org/resources/index.htm


 * The first constitution to prohibit religious tests was the United States Constitution written in 1787


 * The treatment of religion in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights is notably different from the provisions in state constitutions; not only are the national clauses noticeably shorter in both number and length, but the completeness of their prohibitions is unprecedented--no religious tests, no establishments, no laws prohibiting the free exercise of religion. In all state constitutions there are some limits placed on these religious liberties. But the national government under the U.S. Constitution is prevented by clear and bold language from any power to control religion. Even the Preamble lacks the common reference to God which is even found in most current state constitutions. --Religion Under the State Constitutions, 1776-1800, John K Wilson, Journal of Church and State, Volume 32, Autumn 1990, Number 4, pp 766.

Many states kept religious tests & other restrictions - 7 states still have some
 * http://www.religioustolerance.org/texas.htm