CAS IR 292 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Free Exercise Clause, Plymouth Colony, Conscientious Objector
11 Aug 2018
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Pure, oliver cromwell, realized ideas about relationships from other religious beliefs. Discontent with the monarchial rule of the established state church (anglican. Church); very rigid about purity and correctness; low levels of tolerance for other religious beliefs. Are persecuted for speaking against the church and relocate to the new world. Escape religious persecution in the old world (i. e. to seek religious freedom) Puritans apply their religious ideas to how they rule their people in the new. Covenant the foundational principle around which puritans developed their thinking on the relationship between state, church, and society in colonial america. A promise that god extends to the humans. A pact, a bargain, a contract, a trust. Witte all social relationships depend on consent and mutual responsibilities: person and god, also multiple relationships among persons in church, state, and civil society. Ordered liberty: freedom limited by the need for order in society.
