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Mr. Martin Name:________________________ Freedom of Religion The new concern with rights led to changes in the relationship between the church and the state. Many of the Revolution’s leaders opposed “ecclesiastical tyranny”-the power of a church, backed by the government, to make people worship in a certain way. After the war, the idea that government should not aid churches became more accepted. The new push to end state funding of churches began in Virginia, where Baptists led a movement to abolish taxes collected to support the Anglican Church. In 1786 Governor Thomas Jefferson pushed the legislature to pass the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. The statute declared that Virginia no longer had an official church and that the state could not collect taxes for churches. Articles of Confederation Notes During the Constitutional Era, the Americans made two attempts to establish a workable government based on republican principles. How did America’s pre-Revolutionary relationship with England influence the structure of the first national government? American political leaders, fearful of a powerful central government like England’s, created the Articles of Confederation, adopted at the end of the war. What weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation led to the effort to draft a new constitution? The Articles of Confederation -Provided for a weak national government -Gave Congress no power to tax or regulate commerce among the states -Provided for no common currency -Gave each state one vote regardless of size -Provided for no executive or judicial branch Lacking the power to tax or regulate trade, the only way for the Confederation Congress to raise money to pay its debts and finance its operations was to sell the land it controlled west of the Appalachian Mountains.