Establishment Clause Essay

People hung, women treated as criminals, children branded for their religion, hundreds of people dying because of the government. A government where religion was the law and if you did not conform with what the Puritans believed, your life was in danger.(Solid hook!) However, things could be different with one phrase: the Establishment Clause.(Nice transition!) The lives of people in the Puritan society would have been different if the Establishment Clause had been enforced at the time because there would be a separation between church and state, Quakers would have been able to practice their religion and they would have lived peacefully.

The separation between church and state did not exist during the Puritan theocracy and the Establishment
They would never have to be afraid of being discriminated against or put into jail for who they were and what they believed in. Their religious freedom would also affect their freedom of speech because people would have been able to talk freely about their faith such as what was in the sermon or what happened in church. If all citizens had freedom of speech and the Establishment Clause had been enforced during the Puritan theocracy, the government would have considered everyone's opinion. Therefore, the government would have ruled over a more peaceful country and all people, including the Quakers, would have been safer. (Very good!)

The lives of people in the Puritan society would have been vastly different if the Establishment Clause had been enforced because there would have been a separation between church and state.(Nice!) If the powerful Puritan theocratic ideals had not taken over the government, people like Mary Dyer, a devout Quaker, would have been able to practice her religion and live freely. Thankfully, today we live in a country with no theocracies, no institutionalized discrimination, but what if history repeated itself. Would we be