Chris Burlingame

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Consistent with his argument in his Letters concerning Toleration, Locke’s Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina established freedom of religious expression. People who did “not acknowledge a God and that God is publickly and solemnly to be worshiped” were to be barred from settling and owning land, but, aside from that, any belief was acceptable, the constitution decreeing that “heathens, Jews and other dissenters from the purity of Christian Religion may not be scared and kept at a distance.”
These Truths: A History of the United States
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