The second Lord Baltimore.
george calvert
The Maryland Toleration Act.
it was started because William Penn wanted a colony where Quakers could worship freely and not be prosecuted for doing so
The Maryland Toleration Act of 1649.
A royal charter to found a colony was granted to the English Catholic nobleman, Cecil Calvert, 2nd Lord Baltimore in 1632. The earliest settlers of the Maryland colony included both Catholics and Protestants, but Catholics held the key positions in colony government.
Maryland Constitution
The Maryland Toleration Act of 1649 was a law passed to establish religious tolerance for Trinitarians. This Act created the first law banning religious hate speech. The Calvert's who were the founders of Maryland and Catholic, sought to enact laws that would protect settlers from the dominant Anglicanism of Britain's colonies.
Which English colony in North America was the first to offer complete religious freedom to its settlers?
People were not allowed to worship what ever they wanted. In massachusets bay colony If you were not a puritan you were not allowed to live in That particular colony.
The Plymouth colony was formed for religious reasons. The colonists wanted to be part of England but wanted to worship freely.
Lord Baltimore founded Maryland. He named it Maryland after Mary, the Mother of God
Yes it is one of the guaranties of the US Constitution.
Because that time, Catholics could not worship freely in England.