...receive the Truth." Therefore the said Constitutions provided for their Liberty, but declar'd, "That no Person above seventeen Years of Age, shall have any Benefit or Protection of the Law, which is not a Member of some Church or Profession,having his Name recorded in some one religious Record."...

...not members of some religious communion. '' No person above seventeen years of age,'' it declares, '' shall have any benefit or protection of the law, or be capable of any place of profit or honor, who is not a member of some Church or profession.'' It is hardly necessary to add that the "Fundamental...

...in the Church of England, or by holding up the hand, or any other sensible way. One hundred and one. No person above seventeen years of age shall have...of the law, or be capable of any place of profit or honor, who is not a member of some church or profession, having his name recorded in some one, and...

...the Protestant and Papist churches, or by holding up the hand, or any other sensible way. (9!) [ioi] No person above seventeen years of age shall have...having his name recorded in some one, and but one religion record at once. (92) [added to 98] The religious record of every church or profession shall...

...to reveal the tenor of the times and what the English thought of political rule in the colonies. Cl. No person above seventeen years of age shall have any benefit or protection of the law . . . who is not a member of some church or profession, having his name recorded in some one, but on...

...to reveal the tenor of the times and what the English thought of political rule in the colonies. Cl. No person above seventeen years of age shall have any benefit or protection of the law . . . who is not a member of some church or profession, having his name recorded in some one, but on...

...the Bible, as in the Church of England, or by holding up the hand, or any other sensible way. §zoi. No person above seventeen years of age shall have...in some one, and but one religious record at once. §ioz. No person of any other Church or profession shall disturb or molest any religious assembly....

...doth not acknowledge a God; and that God is publicly and solemnly to be worshipped" (Locke 1993, 228). "No person above seventeen years of age shall have any benefit or protection of the law... who is not a member of some Church" (Locke 1993, 229). Atheists and individualists were excluded from...