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  • 2 - Law and the Lively Experiment in Colonial Rhode Island

  • Scott Douglas Gerber, Ohio Northern University
  • Book:
    Law and Religion in Colonial America
    Published online:
    19 October 2023
    Print publication:
    02 November 2023, pp 40-66

  • Summary

    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.