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Rode Island Charter allows the right o religious freedom.
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Connecticut passes the first dissenter statute and allows full liberty and worship baptism and anglicans
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Virginia jails 50 Baptist worshipers for preaching the Gospel contrary to the Anglican Book of Common Prayer.
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Thomas Jefferson completes his first draft of a Virginia state bill for religious freedom, which states: “No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever.”
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Eighteen Baptist people were arrested in Massachusetts for refusing to pay taxes that support the congregational church
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Supreme Court rules that a New York law creating a separate school district for a religious village violates the establishment clause
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The Congress passes a Decency Act , which is challenged on First Amendment
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the Child Online Protection Act is a federal criminal liability to an online transmission for commercial reasoning are considered harmful to minors.
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It is not against the First Amendment to not have a public candidate on television
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Prohibiting judicial candidates form announcing their views disputed legal is against the First Amendment
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The Supreme Court rejects constitutional challenges
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A state law bans cross burning largely passes constitutional muster.