Law and religion in Colonial America: the dissenting colonies
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...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY
Cambridge University Press
2024
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| In: | Year: 2024 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Gerber, Scott Douglas, 1961-, Law and religion in Colonial America : the dissenting colonies] (2025) (Babie, P. T.)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Maryland (Colony)
/ Rhode Island (Colony)
/ Pennsylvania (Colony)
/ Connecticut (Colony)
/ Massachusetts (Colony)
/ Religion
/ Law
/ History 1660-1775
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Religion And Law (United States)
History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
B Church and state (United States) History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 |
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| Summary: | 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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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 23 Oct 2023) |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 346 pages), digital, PDF file(s) |
| ISBN: | 1009289098 |