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BOOK REVIEW: 'Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul'
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[Washington Times] - So to understand how Roger Williams became a heroic figure in the American ethos of individual liberty, Mr. Barry quite rightly takes the reader back to 1534, nearly 100 years before Williams arrived in the New World. That was the year Henry VIII broke
Ban Plastic Food Bags in Barrington?
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[Patch.com] - “Not all plastic bags,” said the political science professor at Roger Williams University. “I just want a ban on the ones used at places such as Shaw's or used for takeout food.” Roberts, who serves on the Barrington Conservation Commission
MOMENTS IN TIME
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[The Dallas Post] - • On Oct. 9, 1635, religious dissident Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony by the General Court after speaking out against the right of civil authorities to punish religious dissension. Williams established a settlement called
Union professor addresses Congress
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[Jackson Sun] - He quoted Roger Williams, a one-time Baptist and the founder of Rhode Island; Massachusetts Baptist minister John Leland, who famously helped frame the free exercise clause of the First Amendment; and Texas Baptist pastor George W. Truett.
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