Note from the editors

In Palatines, Liberty, and Property A.G. Roeber focuses on this neglected subject and explains why so many Germans, when they faced critical choices in 1776, became active supporters of the patriot cause.

In his Letter Concerning Toleration, Locke offers a compelling plea for freedom of conscience and religious expression.

This is a timely contribution to the debate on the rights and liberties of religion, beliefs, and conscience in an age of secularization.

A sustained argument that a general right to conscientious exemption should be equally available to religious and non-religious objectors alike.

Traces freedom of thought from the freedom of Greece, through the persecution of the medieval church and state, to the rise of religious toleration and rationalism.