Law and religion in colonial America : the dissenting colonies / Scott Douglas Gerber.

"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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Main Author: Gerber, Scott Douglas, 1961- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
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Physical Description:xv, 346 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Introduction : 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 -- Conclusion : law, religion, and historiography in colonial America. 
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520 |a "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"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
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