Law and Religion in Colonial America : The Dissenting Colonies
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1009289047
ISBN-13
9781009289047
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 18th, 2025
Print length
364 Pages
Weight
544 grams
Dimensions
22.70 x 15.10 x 2.60 cms
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Scott Douglas Gerber reveals that America has been devoted to the free exercise of religion since well before the First Amendment was ratified. An important contribution to the history of colonial America and religious liberty, this work will interest scholars of history, political science, and the law of religious freedom.
Law – charters, statutes, judicial decisions, and traditions – mattered in colonial America, and laws about religion mattered a lot. The legal history of colonial America reveals that America has been devoted to the free exercise of religion since well before the First Amendment was ratified. Indeed, the two colonies originally most opposed to religious liberty for anyone who did not share their views, Connecticut and Massachusetts, eventually became bastions of it. By focusing on law, Scott Douglas Gerber offers new insights about each of the five English American colonies founded for religious reasons – Maryland, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Massachusetts – and challenges the conventional view that colonial America had a unified religious history.
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