Caroline’s Reviews > Religious Liberty and the American Founding: Natural Rights and the Original Meanings of the First Amendment Religion Clauses > Status Update

"their great error, [Theophilus Parsons] continued, 'lies in not distinguishing between liberty of conscience in religious opinions and worship, and the right to appropriating money by the state. The former is an unalienable right; the latter is surrendered to the state, as the price of protection.'" p. 108