SOURCE: Rutland, Robert A. “James Madison's Dream: A Secular Republic.” In James Madison on Religious Liberty, edited by Robert S. Alley, pp. 199-206. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1985.
In the following essay, originally published in 1983, Rutland examines Madison's advocacy of the separation of church and state, which led to the treatise, Memorial and Remonstrance.
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