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Why did the church act of 1706 occur?

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the act allowed dissenters to practice their faiths and participate in politics, but they were denied public support for their churches or the right to perform marriages.

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This law designated the Church of England as the recognized, financially funded church in South Carolina, a position it would hold for seven decades. English Anglicans waged a furious battle to bar non-Anglicans, or "dissenters," from holding public office in England during the first ten years of the eighteenth century. The persecutions, which inexorably spread over the Atlantic to South Carolina, were directed by Lord Granville, the senior landowner of Carolina. In 1704, South Carolina Anglicans took the Commons House of Assembly from local dissidents with the assistance of Granville. The Church Act was approved by the legislature two years later. The act's clauses stated that dissidents were permitted to practice their religions and engage in politics, but they were prohibited from receiving public funding for their churches.

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