| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Backus appealed to Enlightenment figures in his political pamphlets supporting separation, but the Revolutionary Era was generally unaware of Williams and of his theological defense of religious freedom.[17] By the 1770s the Baptists in colonial America took the lead in calling for the separation of church and state, especially in Virginia where the Anglican Church was supported by tax revenues an
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