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Given that one main theme of Locke's Letter on Toleration is that there should be a separation between Church and State, this does not seem like the view of a man devoted to a state religion.
At the same time, others have challenged this idea, and the philosophical understanding and justification of tolerance has become less obvious (see Heyd 1996 and the entry on toleration).
This paradox is inherent in the idea that toleration is a matter of reciprocity and that therefore those who are intolerant need not and cannot be tolerated, an idea we find in most of the classical texts on toleration.
What's the British record on toleration more generally?
I was very pleased to see Voltaire's Treatise on Toleration, translated by Desmond M Clarke.
Locke drafted papers on toleration, possibly for Ashley to use in parliamentary speeches.
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After hearing a series of lectures on government delivered by an American clergyman, William Richards, Kamehameha III promulgated the Declaration of Rights, called Hawaii's Magna Carta, on June 7 , 1839 the Edict of Toleration on June 17 , 1839 and the first constitution on Oct. 8, 1840.
This week the consultation period ends for the formation of a new nationwide policy on prostitution, with different interests championing either Glasgow's zero tolerance of kerb crawling, or Edinburgh's licensed saunas and on-street toleration zones.
John Stuart Mill's On Liberty (1859) marks the transition to a modern conception of toleration, one that is no longer occupied with the question of religious harmony and does not restrict the issue of toleration to religious differences.
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