By Neil Olsen
One of the shortest of all of the elections sermons, it was once additionally the main strong. His sermon used to be on the time thought of so very important that the meeting approved 4 variations at printers round the nation, an extraordinary quantity. instead of learn inner most letters and clutch at metaphors for a justification of a meant “wall of separation” among church and kingdom, Harry Croswell’s sermon supplied the highbrow and emotional motivation that ended the final theocratic-democracy in the United States by means of vote casting on it – whether it gained by way of a unmarried vote.
Understanding Harry Croswell is essential to knowing the 1st Amendment’s defense of either non secular and press freedom.
The publication contains the essay, The finish of Theocracy in American: The Distinguishing Line of Harry Croswell’s Election Sermon, besides a transcription with creation and notes of Croswell’s A Sermon Preached on the Anniversary Election, Hartford, may well 14, 1818.
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