Law and Religion in Colonial America: The Dissenting Colonies - Hardcover
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781009289054ISBN-10:1009289055UPC:9781009289054Book Category:History, LawBook Subcategory:United States, ConstitutionalBook Topic:Colonial Period (1600-1775)Size:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.94 inchesWeight:1.55Product ID:SCBREYJ37Z
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781009289054ISBN-10:1009289055UPC:9781009289054Book Category:History, LawBook Subcategory:United States, ConstitutionalBook Topic:Colonial Period (1600-1775)Size:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.94 inchesWeight:1.55Product ID:SCBREYJ37Z
Gerber, Scott Douglas: - Scott Douglas Gerber is Professor of Law at Ohio Northern University, and Associated Scholar at Brown University's Political Theory Project. He is the author of seven previous books and the editor of two others. In 2022, he won the inaugural Christopher Collier Prize from the Connecticut Supreme Court Historical Society.
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