Religious toleration was one of the key elements in the creation of Maryland. It was also the reason many puritans had aboard the ships- the Ark and the Dove- and moved to the new world. This resulted in the attraction of settlers that helped make Maryland into one of the largest tobacco exporting colonies. Later, religious toleration became the binding factor to which immigrants around the world lived by as americans. In the First Amendment to the Constitution, freedom of religion, speech, news and assembly is granted to all citizens. The fact that religious freedom was in the first amendment shows that is was a priority to the founding fathers. These ideals strongly correlated to contemporary philosophers at the time, such as John Locke who
