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title: 'The State Free School System Imposed Upon Virginia by the Underwood Constitution'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
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authors:
- 'Robert Lewis Dabney'
date: 1876-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Education'
- 'Church and State'
scriptures:
- 'Deuteronomy 6'
- 'Proverbs 22'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/dabney-1876-the-state-free-school-system-imposed-upon-virginia-by-the-underwood-constitution
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# The State Free School System Imposed Upon Virginia by the Underwood Constitution

Dabney argues against Virginia’s state-run free school system, defending parental responsibility for education and warning that state control fosters moral decay and crime.

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