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"Let us reject this decree," said the princes. "In matters of conscience the majority has no power." To protect liberty of conscience is the duty of the state, and this is the limit of its authority in matters of religion. Every secular government that attempts to regulate or enforce religious observances by civil authority is sacrificing the very principle for which many people so nobly struggled. The principles contained in this celebrated Protest … constitute the very

Will the revolution live on? Do any of us know what motivates the heroes and revolutionaries to lay down their lives. I believe it to be hope, hope and love.

Though the historical references in this story are a matter of record, the story is not about the politics of the time. It is about a young girl’s emotional struggle as she tries to hold on to the only life she knew. The events were true, the struggles were true, but because I chose to change names and time table of certain events, the tale is a fictional biography. ~Carmen Ruggero