[Natural Law]

The separation was not instituted to limit Catholicism, it was limited to limit the Calvinists who dominated the New England states and had a record of intemperance and intolerance of the Anglicans who were the predominant majorities in the southern colonies.

[RegulatorCountry]

The separation was not instituted to limit Catholicism, it was limited to limit the Calvinists who dominated the New England states and had a record of intemperance and intolerance of the Anglicans who were the predominant majorities in the southern colonies.

Cease with the partisan jockeying. State Churches were disestablished to remove governmental authority over religious convictions. All of them. This provided freedom of religion, freedom of speech and freedom of conscience, phrases connoting basic rights that would be more familiar to Anglican Virginians of the Revolutionary era than to any Congregationalist, Calvinist, Catholic or what have you from elsewhere. It was, after all, penned into their State Constitution under the Articles Of Confederation by Founder George Mason.