In 1775 he served on the Orange County committee of safety; the next year at the Virginia convention, which, besides advocating various Revolutionary steps, framed the Virginia constitution; in 1776-77 in the House of Delegates; and in 1778-80 in the Council of State.His ill health precluded any military service.n 1775 he served on the Orange County committee of safety; the next year at the Virginia convention, which, besides advocating various Revolutionary steps, framed the Virginia constitution; in 1776-77 in the House of Delegates; and in 1778-80 in the Council of State. His ill health precluded any military service.
Secularism, any movement in society directed away from otherworldliness to life on earth. In the European Middle Ages there was a strong tendency for religious persons to despise human affairs and to meditate on God and the afterlife.
Secularism is an idealized vision of political life that dredges out of public life as much cultural depth as possible in order to secure the authority of public reason and a rational morality.y way of comparison with the secular, secular ism is relatively easy to locate as a concept and a doctrine bound together with, or centrally located within, a concept of modernity that has recently become hegemonic as a political goal , however unequally it is attained in practice around the globe.