<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia" id="mwmQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Virginia">Virginia</a> enacts the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Statute_for_Religious_Freedom" id="mwmg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom">Statute for Religious Freedom</a> authored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" id="mwmw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a>.<sup about="#mwt96" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-16"}}' id="cite_ref-16" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_16#cite_note-16" id="mwnA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 16;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwnQ">[16]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-16"><cite about="#mwt93" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFPetersonVaughan2002">Peterson, Merrill Daniel; Vaughan, Robert C., eds. (2002). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=I9v9aVcsfJ8C" id="mwCBY" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwCBc">The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom: Its Evolution and Consequences in American History</i></a>. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. p.<span id="mwCBg" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>viii. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwCBk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwCBo" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9780521892988" id="mwCBs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9780521892988"><bdi id="mwCBw">9780521892988</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt93" class="Z3988" id="mwCB0" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Virginia+Statute+for+Religious+Freedom%3A+Its+Evolution+and+Consequences+in+American+History&amp;rft.place=Cambridge%2C+U.K.&amp;rft.pages=viii&amp;rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&amp;rft.date=2002&amp;rft.isbn=9780521892988&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DI9v9aVcsfJ8C&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJanuary+16"></span></span>