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The Petition to His Majesty, The Memorial to the House of Lords and The Remonstrance to the House of Commons, commonly referred to collectively as the 1768 Petition, Memorial and Remonstrance (PMR), are a series of imprints that record a protest by the Virginia House of Burgesses in April 1768 that was sent to the British government by then-acting Lieutenant Governor John Blair.
In 1782, he and Isaac Howell signed a document titled The memorial and remonstrance of Isaac Howell and White Matlack, in behalf of themselves, and others, who have been disowned by the people called Quakers, &c. [6] White and his brother Timothy had been disowned by Orthodox Quakers for their support of the American Revolution.
James Madison and others led the opposition to Henry's bill [8] which culminated in Madison's Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments, published on June 20, 1785. [9] As noted by the Library of Congress , "Madison revived [Jefferson's statute] as an alternative to Henry's general assessment bill and guided it to passage in the ...
Chapters 1-2 give a general historical overview beginning with the history of established churches in the colonies, Thomas Jefferson's Statute for Religious Freedom, James Madison's Memorial and Remonstrance, and Jefferson's Letter to the Danbury Baptists.
1768 Petition, Memorial, and Remonstrance; Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress, a statement adopted by the First Continental Congress on October 14, 1774, in response to the Intolerable Acts.
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James Madison, in his 1785 "Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments," stated: "The Religion of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the ...
Pdf. Hall, Mark D. (October 26, 2015). "Religious Accommodations and the Common Good". Heritage Foundation Backgrounder. Hall, Mark D. (Spring 2014). "Madison's Memorial and Remonstrance, Jefferson's Statute for Religious Liberty, and the Creation of the First Amendment". American Political Thought. 3: 32–63. doi:10.1086/675647. S2CID 153941275.