An
op-ed in today's New York Times reminds us that today is the 350th anniversary of the
Flushing Remonstrance-- a document (
full text) seen as the first on this continent calling for religious liberty. The Remonstrance was signed by 30 citizens of New Amsterdam who objected to an edict issued by New Amsterdam's director general Peter Stuyvesant banning Quakers in the Dutch colony.
[Thanks to Steven Sheinberg for the lead.]