1. William Penn and Colonial Pennsylvania
... trial by jury for all, justice in imprisonment and free elections. This guarantee gave Indians in trials with colonists, a jury composed of half Native Americans. In 1701, the Pennsylvania assembly started resisting Penn's proprietary authority and governance. Thus, he passed a new Frame called the Charter of Privileges ... 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. In fact, William Penn, in the Frame of 1682 of Pennsylvania, wrote that all believers in God, "shall in no ways .....
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate