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Thomas Jefferson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (7362 words) |
 | A political philosopher who promoted classical liberalism, republicanism, and the separation of church and state, he was the author of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1779, 1786), which was the basis of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. |
| In 1779, at Jefferson's behest, William and Mary appointed George Wythe to be the first professor of law in an American university. |
| Dissatisfied with the rate of changes he wanted to push through, he would go on later in life to become the "father" and founder of the University of Virginia, which was the first university at which higher education was completely separate from religious doctrine. |
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