SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
FOUNDING OF THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
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He accepted the role of the church in the government.
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He wanted men and women to discuss their religion with each other.
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He thought men who were not in the church should vote.
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He believed that the government and religion should be separate.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Religious dissident Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony by the General Court of Massachusetts. Williams had spoken out against the right of civil authorities to punish religious dissension and to confiscate Native American land.
Detailed explanation-2: -Freedom of religion is a founding principle of American democracy. One of the strongest advocates of this American ideal was Roger Williams. Throughout his life, Williams fought for the idea that religion should not be subject to regulation by the government, but that it should be an individual freedom.
Detailed explanation-3: -In October of 1635, after various hearings and disputes over intersecting matters of theology and secular power, Massachusetts Bay banished Roger Williams forcing him to leave the colony’s borders.
Detailed explanation-4: -He established the “separation of church and state” by removing religious doctrine from governance of the colony. As the first true democracy in the modern world, he gave each head of household an equal vote – including women – and granted the citizens the power to endow the government with its authority.