We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition, and that every person may here worship God according to the dictates of his own heart. In this enlightened Age and in this Land of equal liberty it is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining and holding the highest Offices that are known in the United States. β¨ George Washington, Jared Sparks (1838). The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, p.202
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