1692 Research Paper

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One day you are in 1692 sitting in your home minding your own business then people come crashing through your door yelling “hang the witch!” Woah woah woah let's take a step back here and learn a little back story to this. Then we can talk about if todays rules were implemented into that society what would it have been like? The puritan society would have been different if the establishment clause was implemented into the society because it separates the church from the government, which allows people to worship freely. Basically what happened was way back when back when Mr. Green was just a young lad in 1692. The “new world” was being inhabited by the puritans. (Puritans: Religious group in the late 1600s and early 1700s.) Now when this was all taking place the church ran everything and if you weren’t…show more content…
“Separation of state and church.” In a nutshell this says don’t let the church control the laws and don’t let the government control worship. Simple, but like a middle school relationship it isn’t that simple one side always wants to control the other and some how they stay mutual. Back in Salem though the minister could have said that there were unicorns with party hats singing Nikki Minaj in the courtyard and people would have believed them. Now if I yelled that in a highly populated area they would haul me off to the nut house. So basically the minsters had supreme power over these people because they were all superstitious. I purely blame this on a weak state government then the church took over and we all know how that went. There wasn’t really a lot of laws back then it was do whatever the guy in a funny hats says and the only way they were able to keep power and influence over these people was that they played on their reliefs and fears, because who wants to be told, “your going to hell for not wearing pink and purple sparkly shoes on Wednesday.” Well that’s what it was like in
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