https://padlet.com/gracekelly12241/goc54f1eut72i2kr By: Grace Kelly and Nixon Lindell en-us 2020-08-19 00:33:36 UTC 2025-11-04 17:59:58 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f1fa-1f1f8.png gracekelly12241 https://padlet.com/gracekelly12241/goc54f1eut72i2kr/wish/686309035
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BECAUSE no People can be truly happy, though under the greatest Enjoyment of Civil Liberties, if abridged of the Freedom of their Consciences, as to their Religious Profession and Worship: And Almighty God being the only Lord of Conscience, Father of Lights and Spirits; and the Author as well as Object of all divine Knowledge, Faith and Worship, who only doth enlighten the Minds, and persuade and convince the Understandings of People, I do hereby grant and declare, That no Person or Persons, inhabiting In this Province or Territories, who shall confess and acknowledge One almighty God, the Creator, Upholder and Ruler of the World; and professes him or themselves obliged to live quietly under the Civil Government, shall be in any Case molested or prejudiced, in his or their Person or Estate, because of his or their conscientious Persuasion or Practice, nor be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious Worship, Place or Ministry, contrary to his or their Mind, or to do or suffer any other Act or Thing, contrary to their religious Persuasion.

]]> 2020-08-19 01:10:40 UTC https://padlet.com/gracekelly12241/goc54f1eut72i2kr/wish/686309035 gracekelly12241 https://padlet.com/gracekelly12241/goc54f1eut72i2kr/wish/686312962 This relates to how religious tolerance was becoming more prominent and how no one could be harmed or executed for their religious practices.]]> 2020-08-19 01:14:07 UTC https://padlet.com/gracekelly12241/goc54f1eut72i2kr/wish/686312962 gracekelly12241 https://padlet.com/gracekelly12241/goc54f1eut72i2kr/wish/686935201 Thesis Statement: Delaware was  by Swedish immigrants in 1638,the Dutch then claimed it in 1655, and by 1664 the British had complete control over the colony. It was created based on its trading and agricultural benefits, as well as transportation; It was also a place where people had religious tolerance as well as being a venture for English business and trading.

]]> 2020-08-19 13:05:21 UTC https://padlet.com/gracekelly12241/goc54f1eut72i2kr/wish/686935201 gracekelly12241 https://padlet.com/gracekelly12241/goc54f1eut72i2kr/wish/686948589 Excerpt Constitution of Delaware 1776:

ART. 4.4 The other branch shall be called " The council," and consist of nine members; three to be chosen for each county at the time of the first election of the assembly, who shall be freeholders of the county for which they are chosen, and be upwards of twenty-five years of age. At the end of one year after the general election, the councillor who had the smallest number of votes in each county shall be displaced, and the vacancies thereby occasioned supplied by the freemen of each county choosing the same or another person at a new election in manner aforesaid. At the end of two years after the first general election, the councillor who stood second in number of votes in each county shall be displaced, and the vacancies thereby occasioned supplied by a new election in manner aforesaid. And at the end of three years from the first general election, the councillor who had the greatest number of votes in each county shall be displaced, and the vacancies thereby occasioned supplied by a new election in manner aforesaid. And this rotation of a councillor being displaced at the end of three years in each county, and his office supplied by a new choice, shall be continued afterwards in due order annually forever, whereby, after the first general election, a councillor will remain in trust for three years from the time of his being elected, and a councillor will be displaced, and the same or another chosen in each county at every election.

ART. 5. The right of suffrage in the election of members for both houses shall remain as exercised by law at present; and each house shall choose its own speaker, appoint its own officers, judge of the qualifications and elections of its own members, settle its own rules of proceedings, and direct writs of election for supplying intermediate vacancies. 

]]> 2020-08-19 13:11:22 UTC https://padlet.com/gracekelly12241/goc54f1eut72i2kr/wish/686948589 gracekelly12241 https://padlet.com/gracekelly12241/goc54f1eut72i2kr/wish/686956760 This relates to how Delaware was developing a legislature after being claimed by so many ]]> 2020-08-19 13:14:47 UTC https://padlet.com/gracekelly12241/goc54f1eut72i2kr/wish/686956760