Why do you think the ideas of democracy and freedom of religion were important to the colonists?

Answer 1

Democracy was not one of the things that was important to most colonists. In fact most colonists thought that democracy was a very bad idea.

This is because their idea of democracy was more literal than ours is today. Today we call our form of government a democracy but it is really still very much the same REPUBLIC that it was 230 years ago.

To the colonists a democracy meant that everyone voted for everything rather than voting for representatives to do most of the voting for us.

Even freedom of religion was not terribly important across the board. Most of the colonies still had a state religion whether it was Congregationalist or Anglican.

Liberty and Freedom were what was important. The ability to govern themselves was the thing that brought the colonists together.

Freedom of religion only came to the United States overall when the 1st Amendment was added to the Constitution in 1789. Many states did not disestablish religion for several decades.

True democracy still has not made it into the American way of life, technically. Although it IS the spirit of the old Greek Democracies along with the Roman Republics that inspired the founding fathers and still inspires us today to value liberty and freedom even more than our own lives!

Answer 2

Well a lot of the colonists to the US were religious nutcases who wanted to force their religion on everyone and thus democracy and freedom of religion were important to them as those were their two biggest enemies (some people think that the puritans were escaping Europe because they were persecuted but the reason that they were being persecuted in Europe was because the Europeans were tired of them trying to force their religious beliefs upon others).

The founding fathers of the US were able to enact a democracy with strong freedom of religion despite the puritans (and there were some religious minorities who welcomed the freedom from being forced to support a church they didn't belong to).

Today the intellectual descendants of those puritan colonists are still fighting to destroy democracy and freedom of religion (and they managed to elect George W. Bush to the white house).

You probably wouldn't get marked too well if you put that on your homework but it'd be more accurate than what everyone else would write.

Answer 3

Democracy and freedom of religion were important to the colonists because they had been under despot monarchs and corrupt religious leaders for too long. The printing press had been invented and the Bible was more accessible to the common man.

Answer 4

Read a book called American Gospel, written by a John Meacham. You'll be surprised if you think freedom of religion was of the paramount importance you seem to think it had. Many who were persecuted by various church groups in Europe came here for freedom from religion.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

I do not think it was democracy as much as it was freedom of religion that they were looking for.

Answer 7

Because the whole reason they came to America was to escape the constricting government that enforced religion and freedom of the people.

Answer 8

Because allowing the church to exert control over the state is a huge mistake. They were persecuted in Europe by those who were enabled to force personal beliefs and twisted values onto the population.

Answer 9

Kid, you have posted four questions in five minutes. It's not too late on a Sunday night. It's time to do your own homework.

Answer 10

Because they were escaping the tyranny of their homeland.