Patrick Henry's Argumentative Essay

As humans develop and evolve our ideas do as well. In 1785 James Madison published a reaction, “To the Honorable the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia, A Memorial and Remonstrance”, to Patrick Henry’s proposed Assessment Bill. In the reaction James Madison expressed his fears on how people react to different religions. He feared that the bill will be a dangerous abuse of power. He feared it would be an abuse of power because as humans we have a right to choose our own religion, the government can not tell us what religion we must follow, we should not be prosecuted for our religion and everyone is equal no matter their religion. The fears that James Madison expressed in his reaction still plague our society today, despite America's public commitment to religious freedom, intolerance remains prevalent. Religious intolerance is a very generalized term because it can infer many situations. It can be as private and individual as a small business not hiring an applicant for being another religion or on a large scale such as being the root cause of nearly every major crisis of the Obama
However, in The United States this is not true and so the people have a right to choose a religion or no religion at all, this causes many debates. For example, some view President Trump’s executive order, from January, that prohibited entry to the United States to people from six Muslim-majority countries as an act of religious intolerance while others view it as an act of national precaution. Thousands of people flooded the airports in protest, and the courts quickly stepped in to block the ban, starting with a case filed by the ACLU. Religious intolerance, even though it still plagues our society today it is getting better and more people are standing up for those of other religions and