{"id":133779,"date":"2021-12-21T12:05:40","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T20:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=133779"},"modified":"2021-12-21T12:05:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T20:05:40","slug":"a-bit-of-wisdom-from-roger-williams-founder-of-rhode-island-and-ideological-founding-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=133779","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Wisdom from Roger Williams, Founder of Rhode Island and Ideological Founding Father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Providence, RI&#8230;Roger Williams, 21 December 1603 &#8211; 15 March 1683.  Minister, theologian, and author who founded Providence Plantations, which became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, now the State of Rhode Island.  He was a staunch advocate for religious freedom, separation of church and state, and fair dealings with Native Americans.  His work and positions helped provide an ideological underpinning for many of our founding documents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI infer that the sovereign, original, and foundation of civil power lies in the people.\u201d The governments they establish, he wrote, \u201chave no more power, nor for no longer time, than the civil power or people consenting and agreeing shall betrust them with.\u201d Roger Williams, 1603 &#8211; 1683<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/god-government-and-roger-williams-big-idea-6291280\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailytide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/220px-Roger_Williams_statue_by_Franklin_Simmons.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"448\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11969\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Providence, RI&#8230;Roger Williams, 21 December 1603 &#8211; 15 March 1683. Minister, theologian, and author who founded Providence Plantations, which became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, now the State of Rhode Island. He was a staunch advocate for religious freedom, separation of church and state, and fair dealings with Native Americans. His work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":133784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-quotes","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/220px-Roger_Williams_statue_by_Franklin_Simmons.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133785,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133779\/revisions\/133785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/133784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}