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The Maryland Toleration Act was a doctrine that protected religious liberty. According to the document, what could happened to anyone who persecuted a Christian believer or slandered the Christian faith?

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C: Death and confiscation of land
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The Maryland Toleration Act imposed as a first measure a fine to anyone who, for religious reasons, persecuted a person not a member of the Anglican Church. If the fined could not pay the amount of the fine, the penalty would be met through public flogging and imprisonment.

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The Maryland Toleration Act, which came into force in 1649 in the English colony of the Province of Maryland, was one of the first laws to explicitly tolerate other Christian branches than the Anglican Church.

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