Flushing Remonstrance
The predecessor to the US Constitution's Freedom of Religion in the
Bill of Rights
, the Flushing Remonstrance was signed on
December 27
,
1657
in what is now
Flushing, New York
by a group of
Quakers
. This was done in demonstration to the policy of Gov.
Peter Stuyvesant
, who banned all other religions outside of the
Dutch Reformed Church
from being practised in the colony of
New Netherland
.
External Links
Electronic text version of the Flushing Remonstrance
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