I’m not an historian, so I won’t get into the intricacies of the relationship between church and state, but I’d like to point out that jizya is only for non-Muslims.
Stfassisi, I’ve begun reading the distributist articles. I believe Woods may be one of the people that John Sharpe is arguing against. For one thing, he is in the Ludwig von Mises Institute and I believe he uses the Spanish Scholastics for support for his arguments. I’m going to continue reading up on distributism, although I must admit that I still remain a little skeptical of it.
I suggest you read Belloc’s Survivals and New Arrivals.
Survivals and New Arrivals By Hilaire Belloc
http://www.onlygooddreams.com/articles/Belloc—Survivals-and-New-Arrivals.php#4
Belloc is not a fan of modern America because he understood the protestant roots of error. Belloc’s position on Islam is also close to his position on protestantism and it’s relation to modern america because they both have anti Catholic roots
Belloc is correct on this