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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
God forbid I actually look something up -- but I think not (at least not in the way you suggest).
IIRC, some of the Puritan colonies were not only quite religious, but near theocracies, in the 17th Century. Didn't they ban Catholics? Thus encouraging the settlement of what became Maryland, I think.
S_A_M
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As well as Rhode Island. Well, not Catholics in Rhode Island, but dissenters.
The Catholic history of Maryland is still being felt, in particular in their paternalistic divorce laws.
