A result of the declining role of religion in Puritan society during the late 1600s was the

As Puritan religious authority weakened in the late 1600s, some people feared that the community was losing its religious values. The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 reflected those anxieties and the continuing influence of Puritan beliefs. The Frame of Government and salutary neglect belong to different political developments, while Peter Zenger’s trial occurred later, in 1735.

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