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Birthplace of Religious Freedom [1]

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Date: 2019-04-25 17:48:37+00:00

“…in a well Governed and Christian Commonwealth matters Concerning Religion & the honor of God ought in the first place to be taken into serious Consideration and endeavoured to be settled.”

The Act Concerning Religion, passed by the Maryland General Assembly on April 21, 1649, was the first time that religious freedom was codified into law, and it provided the foundation for religious freedom in the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America.

“No Person or Persons…shall henceforth be in any ways troubled molested or discountenanced for or in respect of his or her Religion nor in the free exercise thereof…”

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