That our civil rights have no dependance on our religious opinions, any more than on our opinions in physicks or geometry… –A Bill for establishing Religious Freedom, 1786 (Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom)
Related Materials
- Article on the Statute with transcription in Monticello’s Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia
- Image of the Statute in the Monticello Classroom
Listen
Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom read by Bill Barker of Colonial Williamsburg.
