On March 4, 1681, William Penn received a charter from King Charles II to establish the colony of Pennsylvania. He would establish a government like no other ‘experimenting’ with liberal values such as religious tolerance, self governance, and separation of church and state homogenous with those values embedded in the United States Declaration of Independence. Countless other milestones between 1607 and 1745 have influenced the development of an American, democratic society yet his majesty’s government persistently attempted to impede such advancement of democracy to no avail. While one may argue Bacon’s Rebellion is one of such milestones, the Enlightenment, the Great Awakening, and the Zenger case ultimately permitted such people as William
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Such an assault was characterized by unnecessary violence incongruous with democratic values established in the Declaration of Independence. Indeed, Bacon’s Rebellion is sometimes regarded as the first protest of its kind challenging the stratification of Virginia’s social pyramid and analogous to the democratic right to assemble. However, Bacon himself owned two frontier plantations and was a member of the such despised aristocracy. Bacon’s Rebellion, furthermore, was characterized by ruthless and reckless violence in no way resemblant to constitutional right to peaceful …show more content…
Yet the divisions of Christianity, once hostile towards one another, developed a greater sense of unity as a result of the Great Awakening. In one of his famous sermons, George Whitefield thundered "Father Abraham, whom have you in heaven? Any Episcopalians? No! Any Presbyterians? No! Have you any Independents or Seceders? No! Have you any Methodists? No! No! No! Whom have you there? We don't know those names here! All who are here are Christians." With less hostility towards one another and a greater amount of divisions in Christianity, colonies soon developed a separation between church and state so that no one division of Christianity such as the Puritan ‘saints’ could further dominate governance. Not only did the Puritan clergymen lose legitimacy in the wake of the Great Awakening however, but so did King George II, the leader of the Anglican church. Americans began to question their religious leader George II on the important matter of religion, so why could they not question him on more trivial matters such as freedom of the
Such an assault was characterized by unnecessary violence incongruous with democratic values established in the Declaration of Independence. Indeed, Bacon’s Rebellion is sometimes regarded as the first protest of its kind challenging the stratification of Virginia’s social pyramid and analogous to the democratic right to assemble. However, Bacon himself owned two frontier plantations and was a member of the such despised aristocracy. Bacon’s Rebellion, furthermore, was characterized by ruthless and reckless violence in no way resemblant to constitutional right to peaceful …show more content…
Yet the divisions of Christianity, once hostile towards one another, developed a greater sense of unity as a result of the Great Awakening. In one of his famous sermons, George Whitefield thundered "Father Abraham, whom have you in heaven? Any Episcopalians? No! Any Presbyterians? No! Have you any Independents or Seceders? No! Have you any Methodists? No! No! No! Whom have you there? We don't know those names here! All who are here are Christians." With less hostility towards one another and a greater amount of divisions in Christianity, colonies soon developed a separation between church and state so that no one division of Christianity such as the Puritan ‘saints’ could further dominate governance. Not only did the Puritan clergymen lose legitimacy in the wake of the Great Awakening however, but so did King George II, the leader of the Anglican church. Americans began to question their religious leader George II on the important matter of religion, so why could they not question him on more trivial matters such as freedom of the