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Massachusetts seems to be the most vocal of states. Massachusetts’ Declaration of Rights stated that “Whereas the happiness of a people and the good order and preservation of civil government essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality” while the people of Massachusetts think differently. In a response to the declaration of rights, and specifically to the idea that the government should rely on religion, the citizens gave the argument that governments have been in the world long before Christianity had been in it, and it should not be a required that Christianity is a part of government. The citizens go on to attack the declaration of rights essentially saying it is too permissive in regards to ways that those of non-Protestant or dissenters would be able to prevent oppression. Their most important point assessed the possibility of a religious official also being a government official, being so against it that they are alarmed and that “[t]his is a dangerous part of the