The Maryland Toleration Act, also known as the Act Concerning Religion, was the first law in North America requiring religious tolerance for Christians. Cecil Calvert · Description · Repeal and legacy

An Act Concerning Religion. Forasmuch as in a well governed and Christian Common Weath matters concerning Religion and the honor of God ought in the first ...

Specifically, the bill, now usually referred to as the Toleration Act, granted freedom of conscience to all Christians. Religious toleration was not new to the ...

The 1649 act established the public centrality of Christianity without designating preferential treatment for one Christian sect. When Lord Baltimore's property ...

Passed in accordance with instructions from Lord Baltimore, this document protected Maryland from the charge of intolerance toward Protestants. When the ...

1 янв. 2009 г. · The act was meant to ensure freedom of religion for Christian settlers of diverse persuasions in the colony.

The act of 1649 illustrates the limited ideas of religious freedom in the seventeenth century, while at the same time showing that some leaders understood that ...

The main purpose of the Toleration Act of 1649 was to afford the freedom of religion to colonists. This act only accepted religions within the Christian faith.

This article describes the landmark 1649 Maryland Toleration Act, which gave Christians the right to worship as they chose. It did not extend to non-Christians.