William Penn's Timeline: Life, Photos, and Key Events

"[T]hose rights and privileges which I call English, and which are the proper birth-right of Englishmen, and may be reduced to these three. I. An ownership, and undisturbed possession: that what they have is rightly theirs, and no bodys else. II. A voting of every law that is made, whereby that ownership or propriety may be maintained. III. An influence upon, and a real share in, that judicatory power that must apply every such law; which is the ancient, necessary and laudable use of juries: if n"

"That all persons living in this province, who confess and acknowledge the one Almighty and eternal God, to be the Creator, Upholder and Ruler of the world; and that hold themselves obliged in conscience to live peaceably and justly in civil society, shall, in no ways, be molested or prejudiced for their religious persuasion, or practice, in manners of faith and worship, nor shall they be compelled, at any time, to frequent or maintain any religious worship, place or ministry whatever."