In 1632 Maryland officially became a proprietary colony which meant that an individual was awarded and possesed governmental control of the land. The authority was given to Cecilius Calvert who happen to be a Catholic and was the son of King Charles I. As his father was the first Baron Baltimore he became the second Baron Baltimore. He did not exclude Protestants from Maryland, restrict them in the exercise of their religion, nor et up a Roman Catholic establishment (Johnson, 1876). “The charter gave him ... “full, free, and absolute power,” including control of trade and the right to initiate all legislation, with an elected assembly confined to approving or disapproving his proposals” (Foner, 2016, p. 63). Calvert's image of Maryland was …show more content…
With that being said, Calvert warned Leonard to be careful to secure unity and peace’ between Catholics and Protestants (Hartsock …show more content…
William Stone became the first Protestant governor. This lead to the making of the Maryland Toleration Act. This act was passed on April 21, 1649, which became an act of religious tolerance where it only applied to Christians who believed in the Trinity. "And whereas the inforcing of the Conscience in matter of Religion hath frequently fallen out to bee of dangerous Consequence in those Commonwealths where it hath beene practised . . . no person or persons whatsoever within this Province . . . professing to believe in Jesus Christ shall from henceforth be any waies troubled, molested or discountenanced, for or in respect of his or her Religion." (Schwarz, 1999). This meaning that any of the settlers who spoke bad of the Trinity, Jesus Christ, or the Virgin Mary would be punished. The punishments varied from being fined, whipped, or even imprisoned.
Christians used this law to hide behind it and felt protected, although people from other religions were practicing their own religion at a very high risk. In one occasion the Toleration act was utilized to try and prosecute Jacob Lumbrozo who was a non-Christian. Lumbrozo was a Jew who was accused of implying that Jesus was not the son of God and the New Testament was nothing but fake. By the end of the trial Calvert decided to drop the charges and at some point Lumbrozo gained full citizenship
...s undeniable to many who had simply been living in compliance with the established codes, never questioning or investigating them. It was one factor in the many following movements for freedom of speech, contributing to the separation of church and state of today.
The evidence presented to myself and the other juror’s proves that Tyrone Washburn is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of the murder of his wife, Elena Washburn. On March 12, 1979 Elena Washburn was strangled in the living room of her family’s home. Her body was then dragged to the garage, leaving a trail of blood from the living room to the place it was found. Her husband, Tyrone Washburn, found her in the family’s garage on March 13, 1979 at 1:45 A.M. When officer Dale Chambers arrived at the scene he found her lying face down in a pool of blood. The solid evidence in this case proves only one person, Tyrone Washburn, is guilty of murder.
The Scope of the State's Power in Matters Affecting Health: The Case of Jacobson v. Massachusetts 1905
The colony, Massachusetts Bay was settled under God’s law in the Americas by puritans that decided to leave the church of England as a result of King Charles I’s persecution. The Puritans believed that they need to purify from the mixed doctrines between the Church of England and the Roman Catholic. Inspired by the opportunity that the Americas can offer to them, they decided to establish a community called “Massachusetts Bay” after a name of their puritan corporation “the Massachusetts Bay Company, which settled their first colony in Salem in 1629. They created a Puritan self-governing by developing a government which includes a governor and a representative assembly called the General
Most of the religion was Protestants whom attended church on Sundays and followed the doctrine of the church. But most of the colonists paid more attention to the advancement and profit of tobacco rather than their religion. In 1632 Lord Baltimore discovered Maryland for the Catholics but most of the people who worked there were Protestants. Tobacco turned into their faith.
On March 24, 1774, the Intolerable Acts were series of punitive measures passed in retaliation for the Boston Tea Party, closing the Port of Boston, and limiting the rights for many of the colonists as a punishment. These laws were passed by the British Parliament and imposed by King George III. King George III was irritated about the colonists discarding ships loads of tea into the harbor, also known as the Boston Tea Party. In anger of the millions of lost money, he created the Intolerable Acts, which punished the colonists for they way they had acted. The Intolerable Acts were composed of five different laws. These include, Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Administrative Justice Act, Quartering Act, and Quebec Act. The first
The HITECH Act is the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health act passed in 2009. The main points of the act concern security and the technology surrounding the Electronic Health Record (EHR) of each patient. They are in three stages:
Puritans who were persecuted in England sought religious freedom in order to freely practice and express their religion. The Separatists, as they were known, were looking for a “new England”, and they eventually ended up breaking away from the Anglican church. John Winthrop, the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, stated that he wanted to establish towns/communities which would be looked upon by the Americans (city on a hill) (Doc A) and ones that would express the religious beliefs and values of Christianity (Doc D). In the Chesapeake colonies, many of the settlers were a part of the Church of England, but they did not have as much religious diversity as did the New England colonies, resulting in the unique development between the
The author of the first legislature, William Penn uses sophisticated literature such as, “Almighty God of Conscience Father of Light & Spirits and the Author as as Object of all divine Knowledge Faith and Worship.” (pg.70), to stress that the foundation of the laws were based on Biblical contents and influence. For example, keeping the Sabbath Day, not being intoxicated, and one of the worst punishable law, adultery. Those who committed adultery are not only imprisoned for a year but also whipped publicly. The most important historical fact is that to be elected one must be a proclaimed Christian, own a hundred acres of land and pay the scott and lott (taxes). Therefore, those in authority tend to be ones with the most wealth, land and appear as powerful “saints”. Overall, I think that the Laws of Pennsylvania are very favorable to the Puritans or religious group that controlled the town at that
In 1629, The Massachusetts Bay Company was granted a royal charter. Winthrop joined the company and pledged to sell his English estate and take his family to Massachusetts if the company government and charter were also transferred to America. The members agreed to these terms and elected him governor.
The problematic Kansas-Nebraska Act, as any reader of American history knows, drove Abraham Lincoln back into politics in 1854. Speaking of himself in the third person for a campaign autobiography in 1860 he claimed to have been "aroused as he had never been before," by the success of Stephen A Douglas’s legislation. He admitted in that brief sketch that his pursuit of a private life practicing law in Springfield, Illinois had "almost superseded his thoughts of politics" as a career. The threat of the resuscitation of the institution of slavery from its excruciatingly slow and crooked “course of ultimate extinction” that the founders envisioned for it, however, profoundly disturbed his silent confidence in the efficacy of their wisdom.
Just like their religions, Massachusetts gave more power to the people and Virginia gave power to England. In the New England Handout, Mailer describes the difference further, “Unlike in Virginia where a governor is elected from a faraway company in London, and after 1624, by the Crown itself, the ‘freemen’ of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire elect their own governors.” (1) This information describes the contrast in the way a governor gets elected. In Massachusetts, the “freemen”, men who own land, get to vote for their governor, while Virginia’s governor gets appointed by the crown. Virginia’s government also consisted of the Governing Council, rich elites controlling everything, and the House of Burgesses, upper middle-class landowners. The main reason the governments of these colonies differ is the fact that the charter of Virginia created by the Virginia Company resides in England, or in other words it is controlled by the crown. On the other hand, Massachusetts’s charter, created by the Massachusetts Bay Company, resides in the colony, so the colony self-governs itself. This brings forth another comparison of the two colonies; the reason why they were founded.
The political difference between the New England and Chesapeake region was that New England government associate more with religious matter than the Chesapeake government. The New England regions included the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Plymouth colony, the New Hampshire colony, Maine colony, Connecticut colony, and Rhode Island colony. Massachusetts colony for example was governed as a theocracy government. As the first governor of Massachusetts colony once stated in A Model of Christian Charity (Written on board the Arbella on the Atlantic Ocean, 1630),"we shall be as a city upon a hill" a holy commonwealth that could be served as an example community to the rest of the world. The Massachusetts Bay colony placed great importance on religious matters. Only the church member were allowed to vote or held office position. Those who held office position would enforce the law requiring attendance at services. Jamestown, Maryland and the Carolinas were some colonies in the Chesapeake regions. The governments in these regions were less concerned about...
Many of the British North Americans who settled faced religious persecution in Europe. They refused to conform to the teaching of the Church of England and fled Europe. Among those who fled were the Quakers and Puritans, two large religious groups in Britain. However, not everyone was willing to accept these religious groups in America either. Many of the Europeans already living there were of the Christian faith. They didn’t want these groups corrupting the minds of the people in their town. Because of this several religious groups started their own colonies. Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Maryland were founded by the Puritans, and Pennsylvania was founded by the Quakers. The Age of Enlightenment also contributed to religious toleration. The Maryland Act Concerning Religion (1644) was a breakthrough in the early history of religious freedom in America. According to Maryland Act Concerning Religion “matters concerning religion and the honor of God ought in the first place be taken into serious consideration and endeavored to be settled” (Maryland Act 28). Many colonies, however claimed to practice religious freedom, but still had an official state religion. Freedom of religion is considered to be a fundamental right. People are now able to worship whatever and whoever they choose as long as they do transgress on public
First of all, during their time, it was recognized that one did not have a right within the choice of religion versus government. It seemed that whatever one wanted to believe was not an option when it came to following a creed, it was more than probable that one’s government had made that choice for its people. Roger Williams, having been educated by Sir Coke on religious ideals seemed to be bothered by this fact and was fervent to change this as his former master whom had spent time in a London jail for his own ideas (Humanities, 1983). Anne Hutchinson being the daughter of a dissenting puritan minister (Reuben, 2011) had ideas differing from the major religious institutions of her land, and was especially dissatisfied with not being able accept creeds differing from the main. Williams’ works touched on this subject beautifully as he logically, even through quotes in scriptures, explained why it was that if one wished to be a true follower of Christ, that religious tolerance was a must. In The Bloudy Tenet of Persecution, Williams explains that Christ ‘abhors’ the practice of forced worship and persecution of differing beliefs of even those who are not Christian. Anne Hutchinson openly practiced the freedom of conscience as part of her life. She had at one point in England, meetings where she would speak about the doctrines and treatises written by John Cotton, and she would always add in her own interpretations (Anne Hutchinson...