caa a22 4500 38639251X CHVBK 20180307112124.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/1051121 doi S0748081400011267 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/1051121 Curry Thomas J. Church and State in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century America [Elektronische Daten] [Thomas J. Curry] The history of Church-State relations in seventeenth and eighteenth century America is the account of the process by which the arguments of those who asked for exemptions from contemporary Church-State practices became the accepted norms for society at large. There is an essential distinction, however, between the demand for exemptions in that period and modern claims for exemptions on account of religion. In our time, religious people ask for exemptions from laws that society generally sees as inherently secular; and they generally ask for exemptions for themselves or their group, but do not specifically attack the laws and usually have little difficulty with others being bound by them. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, laws such as proclamations of days of prayer and fasting, or laws for the financial support of clergy, were essentially religious in nature but were passed for the secular purpose of bolstering the moral fabric of society. Moreover, although those opposing them were often willing to settle for exemptions only for themselves, they usually attacked the legislation as bad for society, as a violation of religious liberty. Copyright © Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University 1989 Journal of Law and Religion Cambridge University Press 7/2(1989), 261-273 0748-0814 7:2<261 1989 7 JLR https://doi.org/10.2307/1051121 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/1051121 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Curry Thomas J. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Law and Religion Cambridge University Press 7/2(1989), 261-273 0748-0814 7:2<261 1989 7 JLR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge