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2 - Law and the Lively Experiment in Colonial Rhode Island

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2023

Scott Douglas Gerber
Scott Douglas Gerber
Affiliation:
Ohio Northern University
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At present, the writing of early American legal history tends to be dominated by cultural and social approaches. This chapter is an exegesis in intellectual legal history. Part I chronicles how central religious freedom always was in the organic laws—the town compacts, the patent of 1643/4, the charter of 1663—of colonial Rhode Island. Part II describes whether the laws enacted pursuant to those organic laws were consistent with that animating principle. Part III assesses the tensions identified in Parts I and II.

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colonial Rhode Islandlawreligiontolerationlively experimentRoger Williams
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Law and Religion in Colonial America
The Dissenting Colonies
 , pp. 40 - 66
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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