“We Who Differ With Regard To Religion Will Keep The Peace With One Another”: The Intellectual History of European Laws about Religious Toleration Prior to the Planting of English America

• Autores: Scott Douglas Gerber
• Localización: Glossae: European Journal of Legal History, ISSN-e 2255-2707, ISSN 0214-669X, Nº 18, 2021, págs. 225-274
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Law matters, and laws about religion matter a lot. Both the European laws about religious toleration prior to the planting of English America and the laws about religious toleration enacted by the settlers who founded English American colonies for religious reasons employed law primarily as a means of social control. European monarchs wanted power, and they utilized laws about religion to help them acquire it and maintain it. The leaders of the English American colonies planted for religious reasons used law to effectuate their designs: to foster religious toleration in those colonies committed to that animating principle (Maryland, Rhode Island, and Pennsylvania); to try to create an ideal Bible commonwealth for the colonies dedicated to the idea that religion must be practiced as God had ordained (Connecticut and Massachusetts). In short, the settlers of English America were impacted by the European laws about religious toleration that preceded their voyages to the New World. The planters of religiously tolerant colonies tried to learn from what they regarded as Europe’s mistakes, while those who strove for religious purity rejected the prevailing European notion that divine sovereignty must occupy a decidedly secondary place to the sovereignty of the state.

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