How does the quote below give motive to settlement affected the early communities in those regions.

"No people can be truly happy, [even] under the greatest enjoyments of civil liberties, if [deprived] of the Freedom of their conscience as to their religious profession and worship."

- Pennsylvania Charter of Liberties, authored by William Penn in 1701

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13 February, 02:18

How does the quote below give motive to settlement affected the early communities in those regions.

"No people can be truly happy, [even] under the greatest enjoyments of civil liberties, if [deprived] of the Freedom of their conscience as to their religious profession and worship."

- Pennsylvania Charter of Liberties, authored by William Penn in 1701

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Marianna · Answer 1

The message conveyed here is that religious freedom is the most important of all human freedoms. If men are impeded from worshipping in the way their conscience dictates, then they can't be truely free nor happy.