Question

In at least 100 words, explain what Jefferson says here about the revocability of laws and what that means for his Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom.

Answer 1

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Thomas Jefferson said that no assembly should have the power to revoke an act because any Assembly was constituted with the same powers that constituted the Assembly that proposed the act. Also, Jefferson mentions that any natural rights of mankind should not be revoked and that the act that did it would be an infringement of natural right. (The works of Thomas Jefferson Collected and Edited by Paul Leicester Ford)

The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom was written by Thomas Jefferson and passed by Virginia’s General Assembly. It defended religious freedom as a natural right and therefore like he defended before it could not be revoked.

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