| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 346 pages) |
| Contents |
English Law about religious toleration prior to the planting of Colonial America -- Law and Catholicism in Colonial Maryland -- Law and the lively experiment in Colonial Rhode Island -- Law and the holy experiment in Colonial Pennsylvania -- Law and congregationalism in Colonial Connecticut -- Law and a city upon a hill in Colonial Massachusetts -- Law, religion, and historiography in Colonial America |
| 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. 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"-- Provided by the publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 27, 2023) |
| Subject |
Religion and law -- United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
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Church and state -- United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2023019832 |
| ISBN |
9781009289092 |
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1009289098 |
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