Were the Puritans for a State Church?
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Yes, Puritans supported a state church.
- Ministers' salaries were paid by taxes levied on all residents of the colonies. Colonial meetinghouses, also built at the taxpayers' expense, were used for both town business and religious worship.
- Participation in political life was dependent on one's religious background, as voting rights were restricted to members of the church. Note that "church membership" is even stricter than being a Puritan: one had to be a member of the "elect" who could testify to their personal experience of God.
- Dissenters such as Quakers were banished from Puritan colonies and on occasion executed.
A good source generally on Puritan culture is David Hackett Fischer's Albion's Seed. Bernard Bailyn's Ideological Origins of the American Revolution has a brief but good discussion of the development of disestablishment sentiment in the years before the Revolution.
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