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In the mid 1700’s America was beginning to form its own identity. They were a new country starting on their own and only knew one form of government and one society. The country needed to decide on being ruled by one central government or being governed by the states, but the one thing that all American’s knew and agreed on was that they feared tyranny, tyranny in all forms.

For over a thousand years church and state had been joined as a governing alliance that suppressed the common man and the majority of people. A tyrannical leader opposed everything that the new America represented in their fight for independence, they declared a fight against all tyranny and the combined church and state that they had seen their entire lives was a representation of such. The American Revolution was not only a struggle for civil liberties but also religious. The Anglican Church hoped to impose bishops that were similar to the lordly princess that were seen in England. Americans were......

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