MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE BILL OF RIGHTS THE CONSTITUTIONS FIRST 10 AMENDMENTS
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Freedoms listed in the Bill of Rights
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Expansion of individual voting rights
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Growth of abolitionist movements
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Beliefs expressed by Transcendentalists
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Detailed explanation-1: -The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution says that everyone in the United States has the right to practice his or her own religion, or no religion at all.
Detailed explanation-2: -John Locke’s Letter Concerning Toleration is published. It provides the philosophical basis for George Mason’s proposed Article Sixteen of the Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776, which deals with religion.
Detailed explanation-3: -The First Amendment has two provisions concerning religion: the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause. The Establishment clause prohibits the government from “establishing” a religion.
Detailed explanation-4: -Freedom of religion was first applied as a principle in the founding of the colony of Maryland, also founded by the Catholic Lord Baltimore, in 1634.