ABSTRACT

First published in 2006. This book is a study of the political struggles over the repeal of laws restricting or penalizing religious minorities in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and of the opinions and ideas expressed in the controversies surrounding these struggles.

chapter |17 pages

Introduction

chapter |45 pages

Church and State

chapter |37 pages

Edmund Burke

chapter |39 pages

Roman Catholic Emancipation

chapter |31 pages

Jewish Emancipation

chapter |54 pages

Evangelicals and Infidels

chapter |18 pages

Conclusion