Flushing Remonstrance
Demand for religious liberty made to Peter Stuyvesant in 1657 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Flushing Remonstrance was a 1657 petition to Director-General of New Netherland Peter Stuyvesant, in which some thirty residents of the small settlement at Flushing requested an exemption to his ban on Quaker worship. It is considered a precursor to the United States Constitution's provision on freedom of religion in the Bill of Rights.[1][2]