Toleration Act (other)
Toleration Act may refer to: * Maryland Toleration Act, a 1649 law mandating religious tolerance for Trinitarian Christians * Toleration Act 1689, an Act of the Parliament of England * Toleration Act 1719, an Act of the Parliament of Ireland See also * Occasional Conformity Act 1711 The Occasional Conformity Act (10 Anne c. 6), also known as the Occasional Conformity Act 1711 or the Toleration Act 1711, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which passed on 20 December 1711. Previous Occasional Conformity bills h ...

Maryland Toleration Act
The Maryland Toleration Act, also known as the Act Concerning Religion, the first law in North America requiring religious tolerance for Christians. It was passed on April 21, 1649, by the assembly of the Maryland colony, in St. Mary's City in St. Mary's County, Maryland. It created one of the pioneer statutes passed by the legislative body of an organized colonial government to guarantee any degree of religious liberty. Specifically, the bill, now usually referred to as the Toleration Act, granted freedom of conscience to all Christians. (The colony which became Rhode Island passed a series of laws, the first in 1636, which prohibited religious persecution including against non-Trinitarians; Rhode Island was also the first government to separate church and state.) Historians argue that it helped inspire later legal protections for freedom of religion in the United States. The Calvert family, who founded Maryland partly as a refuge for English Catholics, sought enactment of the ...
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Toleration Act 1689
The Toleration Act 1688 (1 Will & Mary c 18), also referred to as the Act of Toleration, was an Acts of Parliament in the United Kingdom, Act of the Parliament of England. Passed in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution, it received royal assent on 24 May 1689. The Act allowed for freedom of worship to Nonconformist (Protestantism), nonconformists who had pledged to the oaths of Oath of Allegiance (United Kingdom), Allegiance and Oath of Supremacy, Supremacy and rejected transubstantiation, i.e., to Protestants who dissented from the Church of England such as Baptists, Congregationalists or English Presbyterians, but not to Roman Catholics. Nonconformists were allowed their own places of worship and their own schoolteachers, so long as they accepted certain oaths of allegiance. The Act intentionally did not apply to Roman Catholics, Jews, nontrinitarians, and atheists. It continued the existing social and political disabilities for dissenters, including their exclusion from h ...
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Toleration Act 1719
The Toleration Act 1719 was an Act of the Parliament of Ireland exempting Protestant dissenters from certain restrictions. That meant that Presbyterians had practical freedom of religion.''The Oxford Companion to Irish History'', p. 459. References {{reflist 1719 in law Acts of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) Christianity and law in the 18th century Protestantism in Ireland 1719 in Ireland 1719 in Christianity ...
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