First of all, as stated in the first article of the Charter of Privileges, William Penn gave the colonists the Freedom of Religion, opening the colony to all the world's religions. ... Whereas the English penal code of his era outlined over 200 offenses that could be punished by the death penalty, Penn, inspired by his own experience of jail, forbade torture and other forms of cruel punishment, reducing the number of these offenses to two. ... Adding to that, it was one of the first colonies to grant the Right to vote to all the settlers, but it lacked equality to some extent as there w...

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