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7224. RELIGION, Freedom of.—[further continued] .

We [the Assembly of
Virginia] * * * declare that the rights
hereby asserted [in the Statute of Religious
Freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind,
and that if any act shall be hereafter
passed to repeal the present [act], or to narrow
its operations, such act will be an infringement
of natural right.—
Statute of Religious Freedom. Washington ed. viii, 456. Ford ed., ii, 239.
(1779)