(1663), were drawn up by the philosopher, John Locke, at the request of Sir William Berkeley and the seven other lord proprietors of the colony.377 It stated:
No man shall be permitted to be a freeman of Carolina, or to have any estate of habitation within it that doth not acknowledge a God, and that God is publicly and solemnly to be worshiped.378
[No person may use] reproachful, reviling, or abusive language [against any religion.]379