John Peter Zenger What Was Term Paper

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In 1638, among the crimes that were designated as "enormous offenses" in Maryland, Eldridge explains, were "scandalous or contemptuous words or writings to the dishonor of the Lord Proprietary of his Lieutenant General [Governor]..."

As repressive as that may seem, there was the case of Thomas Blatchley, who in New Haven in 1646, uttered allegedly seditious words and was punished when in court it was "proved" that he was guilty of "neglecting the image of God in magistrates.
" In other words, government officials were to be seen as not only being above the average citizen, but as being holy, touched by the grace of God himself. Thankfully, there are Constitutionally guaranteed freedoms today that prevent that kind of twisted connection between the Bible and common law.

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