. Album of history and biography of Meeker County, Minnesota . esident Weatherspoon, and in 1772 re-turned to Virginia, where he continued inincessant study for two years, nominallydirected to the law, but really includingextended researches in theologA, philoso-phy and general literature. The Church of England was the estab-lished church in Virginia, invested with allthe prerogatives and immunities which itenjoved in the fatherland, and other de-nominations labored under serious disabili-ties, the enforcement of which was rightlyor wrongly characterized by them as per-secution. Madison took a
. Album of history and biography of Meeker County, Minnesota . esident Weatherspoon, and in 1772 re-turned to Virginia, where he continued inincessant study for two years, nominallydirected to the law, but really includingextended researches in theologA, philoso-phy and general literature. The Church of England was the estab-lished church in Virginia, invested with allthe prerogatives and immunities which itenjoved in the fatherland, and other de-nominations labored under serious disabili-ties, the enforcement of which was rightlyor wrongly characterized by them as per-secution. Madison took a prominent standin behalf of the removal of all disabilities,repeatedlv appeared in the court of his owncounty to defend the Baptist nonconform-ists, and was elected from Orange County tothe Virginia Convention in the spring of1766, when he signalized the beginning ofhis public career by procuring the passageof an amendment to the Declaration ofRights as prepared by George Mason, sub-stituting for • toleration a more emphaticassertion of religious -(--t^ ifti,-<%^ JAMES MADISON. 29 In 1776 he was elected a member of theVirginia Convention to frame the Constitu-tion of the State. Like Jefferson, lie tookbut little part in the public debates. Hismain strength lay in his conversational in-fluence and in his pen. In November, 1777,he was chosen a member of the Council ofState, and in March, 1780, took his seat inthe Continental Congress, where he firstgained prominence through his energeticopposition to the issue of paper money b}^the States. He continued in Congress threeyears, one of its most active and influentialmembers. In 1784 Mr. Madison was elected a mem-ber of the Virginia Legislature. He ren-dered important service by promoting andparticipating in that revision of the statuteswhich effectually abolished the remnants ofthe feudal system subsistent up to thattime in the form of entails, primogeniture,and State support given the AnglicanChurch ; and his Memori
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