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work_b5ggo6b4arbuzhjcw2bno5kcem	VINCENT PHILLIP MUÑOZ	James Madison's Principle of Religious Liberty	2003	16	.pdf	application/pdf	16360	1083	55	Madison's authority for First Amendment religion jurisprudence has been nearly universally accepted, what protect the free exercise of religion by granting religious citizens exemptions from oppressive laws? I defend my interpretation by showing how the principle of a "religion-blind" constitution explains Madison's political actions, statements, and writings made About 100 federal and state court decisions have highlighted Madison's role in crafting the religion clauses of conclusive proof that Madison "regarded any compulsory contribution to religion, through taxes, as a violation of the individual taxpayer's religious liberty." out that Madison wrote it with a specific legislative intention, to defeat Patrick Henry's pending "Bill Establishing a Provision for Teachers of the Christian Religion." Henry's measure, according to Pfeffer, Is Madison, then, a "strict separationist?" Did he think that any and all aid to religion violates constitutional principles? First, Madison criticized the use of the word "toleration," because religious liberty is a right derived	./cache/work_b5ggo6b4arbuzhjcw2bno5kcem.pdf	./txt/work_b5ggo6b4arbuzhjcw2bno5kcem.txt