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April 9, 2025

When the People of Queens Stood Up for Religious Freedom

The Flushing Remonstrance.

While the First Amendment guarantees freedom of religion in the United States and dimensions its meaning, the country’s expansive view of religious liberty is very much rooted in attitudes that predated, and shaped, the founding. One of the earliest documents exemplifying these attitudes, the Flushing Remonstrance, went on display in the New York Public Library yesterday. Fiona André writes:

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