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Flushing Remonstrance

U.S. Postage Stamp commemorating religious freedom and the Flushing Remonstrance.

The Flushing Remonstrance was a 1657 petition to Director-General of New Netherland Peter Stuyvesant, in which some thirty residents of the small settlement at Flushing requested an exemption to his ban on Quaker worship. It is considered a precursor to the United States Constitution's provision on freedom of religion in the Bill of Rights.[1][2]

  1. ^ "Document: The Flushing Remonstrance, 1657". August 17, 2009.
  2. ^ "Document that inspired Bill of Rights on display at Federal Hall National Memorial (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov.

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