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Transcript: RELIGIOUS FREEDOM DAY, 2001 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION
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- January 16, 2001
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Each year we commemorate the anniversary of the religious freedom
statute adopted by the Virginia legislature in 1786. This statute,
which
reflects the wisdom and foresight of its author, Thomas Jefferson,
and
its cosponsor, James Madison, became the model for the First Amendment
to our Constitution, and it has had enormous and far-reaching consequences
for the life of our Nation.