POL 1201 Lecture Notes - Antonin Scalia, Theocracy, John Paul Stevens
30 Sep 2013
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The emergence of religious tolerance, liberty of conscience, and separation of church and. Liberty of conscience or right to free conscience. The duty of religious tolerance (and its limits) Throughout much of wester and non-western history, politics and religion overlapped, and there was no separation of church and state, and religious non-believers and dissenters were penalized or persecuted. Socrates is one famous example, galileo is another. 16th c. -- protestant reformation: fractures europe into competing religious sects, provoking civil wars and religious persecutions that persisted into locke"s era. In england, religious conflict helped spark the english civil war. After monarchy was restored, laws repressed many dissenting sects -- presbyterians, baptists, quakers, and others. Many early colonist of new england emigrated partly to gain freedom to practice their. dissenting religions, including puritanism: when james ii assumed power in england, locke and many others feared he would establish catholicism and persecutor protestants.
