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    Toleration is when one allows or permits an action, idea, object, or person that they dislike or disagree with. Political scientist Andrew R. Murphy explains...
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    security and that of the institutions of liberty are in danger." In On Toleration (1997), Michael Walzer asked, "Should we tolerate the intolerant?" He...
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    Religious tolerance or religious toleration may signify "no more than forbearance and the permission given by the adherents of a dominant religion for...
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  • Toleration Act may refer to: Maryland Toleration Act, a 1649 law mandating religious tolerance for Trinitarian Christians Toleration Act 1689, an Act of...
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  • related to Tolerance. Tolerance or toleration is the state of tolerating, or putting up with, conditionally. Toleration Party, a historic political party...
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    A Letter Concerning Toleration (Epistola de tolerantia) by John Locke was originally published in 1689. Its initial publication was in Latin, and it was...
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    An edict of toleration is a declaration, made by a government or ruler, and states that members of a given religion will not suffer religious persecution...
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    The Maryland Toleration Act, also known as the Act Concerning Religion, was the first law in North America requiring religious tolerance for Christians...
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  • The Toleration Party, also known as the Toleration-Republican Party and later the American Party or American Toleration and Reform Party, was a political...
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    The Patent of Toleration (German: Toleranzpatent, Hungarian: Türelmi rendelet) was an edict of toleration issued on 13 October 1781 by the Habsburg emperor...
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    agreed to change policies towards Christians following the edict of toleration issued by Emperor Galerius two years earlier in Serdica. The Edict of...
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    limited extent of the English Reformation and with the Church of England's toleration of certain practices associated with the Roman Catholic Church. They formed...
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    The Toleration Act 1688 (1 Will. & Mar. c. 18), also referred to as the Act of Toleration or the Toleration Act 1689, was an Act of the Parliament of...
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    (10 Ann. 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...
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    March 1686, James sent a letter to the Scottish Privy Council advocating toleration for Roman Catholics but not for rebellious Presbyterian Covenanters. Presbyterians...
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    library. 1689. A Letter Concerning Toleration. 1690. A Second Letter Concerning Toleration 1692. A Third Letter for Toleration 1689/90. Two Treatises of Government...
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    An Edict of Toleration was decreed by King Kamehameha III of Hawaii on June 17, 1839, which allowed for the establishment of the Hawaii Catholic Church...
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    state-sanctioned persecution of Christians was ended with the Edict of Toleration in 311 and the Edict of Milan in 313. At that point, Christianity was...
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    July 2023. Graves 2014, pp. 101, 197 Paul W. Knoll (2011). "Religious Toleration in Sixteenth-Century Poland. Political Realities and Social Constrains...
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    despotism included the Patent of Toleration, enacted in 1781, and the Edict of Tolerance in 1782. The Patent of Toleration granted religious freedom to the...
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  • liberty of conscience. This extreme diversity of opinion about religious toleration was sorted into 12 schools of thought in the seminal study of the period...
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    religious persecution in France. Bayle was a notable advocate of religious toleration, and his skeptical philosophy had a significant influence on the subsequent...
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    avowed and open atheism was made possible by the advance of religious toleration, but was also far from encouraged. Accusations of atheism were common...
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  • Treatise on Tolerance is a book written by Voltaire, following the trial of Jean Calas (1698-1762), a French Protestant merchant accused of murdering his...
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    The Edict of Serdica, also called Edict of Toleration by Galerius, was issued in 311 in Serdica (now Sofia, Bulgaria) by Roman Emperor Galerius. It officially...
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    The Toleration Act 1719 (6 Geo. 1. c. 5 (I)) was an act of the Parliament of Ireland exempting Protestant dissenters from certain restrictions. That meant...
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    the disasters that finally overtook him. He was a friend to religious toleration, anxious to reduce the power of the church, to relieve the peasantry of...
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    Publius Licinius Egnatius Gallienus (/ˌɡæliˈɛnəs/; c. 218 – September 268) was Roman emperor with his father Valerian from 253 to 260 and alone from 260...
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    Trinitarian Act 1812, the Unitarian Relief Act, the Trinity Act, the Unitarian Toleration Bill, or Mr William Smith's Bill (after Whig politician William Smith)...
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    Prostitution in Thailand is not itself illegal, but public solicitation for prostitution is prohibited if it is carried out "openly and shamelessly" or...
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