"You have no power to call upon me to give the grounds of my conscience. The Spirit of God is not subject to magistrates, and what I have spoken in private I am not bound to repeat in public. I have brought no scandal upon the church, but only spoken truth as the Lord revealed it to me." — Anne Hutchinson, Trial Transcript, 1637
A direct consequence of Hutchinson's banishment was the
- A
Issuance of the Mayflower Compact
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Founding of settlements in Rhode Island offering religious liberty
- C
Repeal of the Half-Way Covenant
- D
Establishment of Harvard College
Explanation
Hutchinson and her followers fled to Rhode Island, where Roger Williams' colony already practiced toleration; her settlement at Portsmouth reinforced that pattern.