Law and religion in the history of the early American state

The colonial period of American statehood was characterized by the unification of religious and political power in the emerging communities and parishes, and the dominant Anglican and Protestant churches laid down in the legal system of the young state the features of many institutions that continued the traditions of the first settlers. The purpose of the study is to determine the evolutionary path and specific features of the legal regulation of religious freedom in the American states from the founding of the first settlements to the adoption of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Such methods of research are used as historical method of cognition, comparative-legal, formal-legal, abstraction and analysis.