This site discusses the actual effects of the Maryland Toleration Act. Clicking on "Text" will take you to the original document.

The text of a 1649 colonial act concerning religion in Maryland. Describes punishment of any who reject Christian teaching.

Writings of philosopher John Locke on religious toleration, government and society from which students will gain an understanding of the underpinnings of American government.

Click on Connecticut for a list of and links to the colony's earliest government documents establishing its laws, religious toleration, and means of taxation.

An electronic version of the original English Bill of Rights, written in 1689, which influenced the writings of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams, and laid the basis for American Democracy and common law.

An electronic text of the 1672 Declaration of Indulgence.