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which, for the well-being, happiness and advancement of the human race, ought to go down?" The religious issue is raised by Mr. Coffin. But was Magna Charta a Protestant or a Catholic achievement? And the Tudor d)masty, which defied the Pope and levelled Catholicity in the dust — was it famous for the concession of the rights of the many? was it not notorious for its vindication of the privilege of the few? Mr. Coffin is surely maundering. All English history ai Digitized by LjOOQIC •'OLD TIMES... IN THE COLONIES" fails to afford a parallel to the absolutism and tyranny of the Protestantizing rigitnes of the Tudors and Stuarts. Neither will all the history of Christianity afford a parallel to the absolutism and t3rranny of the Colonial laws of Massachusetts and the Blue Laws of Connecticut Nor is the religious freedom guaranteed by our Constitution the result of liberal ideas, but of the sheer necessi- ties surrounding and dictating the project of colonial federation in America. So diverse were the religious conditions in Pennsylvania and Connecticut, for instance, that the only avenue left open to a real union was the agreement to disagree.
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