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John Leland

Born: 1754
Died: 1841

American Baptist preacher in Virginia and Massachusetts who campaigned for the disestablishment of state churches and for constitutional guarantees of religious liberty.

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The Rights of Conscience Inalienable1791

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The Rights of Conscience Inalienable

The Baptist evangelist John Leland's tract of 1791 arguing that the rights of conscience cannot be surrendered to the state, that religious establishments harm both church and state, and that government should protect every sect equally.

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