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I'm not sure where you're getting your history of Pennsylvania from, but that's not correct. > Penn established a government with two innovations that were muc
by jimktrains2 9y ago
I'm not sure where you're getting your history of Pennsylvania from, but that's not correct.
> Penn established a government with two innovations that were much copied in the New World: the county commission and freedom of religious conviction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania#History
There have been a couple religious-based communities in PA, notably the Quakers, but PA was not founded as a religious state.
- brudgers 9y agoAs I read the First section of the Pennsylvania Charter of Privileges, I see a colony founded on religious belief. In part my reading is based in the historical context of Quakers having been persecuted by the English State for the expression of their religious beliefs. That it is possible to see Penn's religious views as more consistent with an outline of contemporary liberal democracy does not, for me, make the document any less a codification of Quaker religious views. http://www.ushistory.org/documents/charter.htm http://www.ushistory.org/documents/charter.htm