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  • Precursor of the Constitution Goes on Display in Queens

    12/05/2007 4:38:26 AM PST · by Pharmboy · 35 replies · 163+ views
    NY Times ^ | December 5, 2007 | GLENN COLLINS
    Marilynn K. Yee/The New York Times An art handler at the Queens Public Library cleaned the display case Tuesday where the Flushing Remonstrance will be shown. The Flushing Remonstrance made a rare visit yesterday to the old neighborhood. ...the] Remonstrance...an important early recorded defense of the freedom to worship that has been called the religious Magna Carta of the New World. Relatively little known, this 1657 appeal by some 30 Flushing farmers for freedom to practice their Quaker religion goes on display... snip... According to historians, a group of about 30 freeholders in Flushing, which was then called Vlissingen,...