Freedom of religion is not always protected under existing law.

* 1657 – Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam ( later New York City ).

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Dewey's most significant writings were " The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology " ( 1896 ), a critique of a standard psychological concept and the basis of all his further work ; Democracy and Education ( 1916 ), his celebrated work on progressive education ; Human Nature and Conduct ( 1922 ), a study of the function of habit in human behavior ; The Public and its Problems ( 1927 ), a defense of democracy written in response to Walter Lippmann's The Phantom Public ( 1925 ); Experience and Nature ( 1925 ), Dewey's most " metaphysical " statement ; Art as Experience ( 1934 ), Dewey's major work on aesthetics ; A Common Faith ( 1934 ), a humanistic study of religion originally delivered as the Dwight H. Terry Lectureship at Yale ; Logic: The Theory of Inquiry ( 1938 ), a statement of Dewey's unusual conception of logic ; Freedom and Culture ( 1939 ), a political work examining the roots of fascism ; and Knowing and the Known ( 1949 ), a book written in conjunction with Arthur F. Bentley that systematically outlines the concept of trans-action, which is central to his other works.

Freedom of religion encompasses all religions acting within the law in a particular region, whether or not an individual religion accepts that other religions are legitimate or that freedom of religious choice and religious plurality in general are good things.

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Freedom of religion is guaranteed by law, although religious organizations are required to register with local authorities and with the central government.

* Freedom of religion in the United Arab Emirates

* Freedom of religion: The government can neither support nor suppress religion.

* February 10 – Freedom of religion is proclaimed in Madagascar.

Freedom of religion was partially granted to help settle the islands, as there was a shortage of willing settlers from Europe.

Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of association were guaranteed in the newly written constitution as with the already firmly established freedom of religion doctrine.

Freedom of religion is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or community, in public or private, to manifest religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance ; the concept is generally recognized also to include the freedom to change religion or not to follow any religion.

Freedom of religion is considered by many people and nations to be a fundamental human right.

Freedom of religion edicts have been found written during Ashoka the Great's reign in the 3rd century BC.

Freedom to practise, preach and propagate any religion is a constitutional right in Modern India.

Freedom of the press was lost in Cuba because of decades of corruption and social imbalances.

* 1735 – Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he had published was true.

A court case allowing the União do Vegetal to import and use the tea for religious purposes in the United States, Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal, was heard by the U. S. Supreme Court on November 1, 2005 ; the decision, released February 21, 2006, allows the UDV to use the tea in its ceremonies pursuant to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

During apartheid there was violence between the ANC and the Inkatha Freedom Party.

Gianfranco Fini was the leader of the party since its foundation in 1995, however he stepped down in 2008 after being elected to the nominally non-partisan post of President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and was succeeded by Ignazio La Russa, who managed to merge the party into The People of Freedom ( PdL ).

* New Alliance ( Nuova Alleanza ), formerly called Right and Freedom ( Destra e Libertà ), headed by Altero Matteoli and Adolfo Urso, was formed by the staunchest supporters of Gianfranco Fini within the party and supported a liberal political agenda.

After the Taliban government was toppled during Operation Enduring Freedom, Rabbani returned to Kabul and served as a temporary President from November to December 20, 2001, when Hamid Karzai was chosen at the Bonn International Conference on Afghanistan.

For the next five years he and the Northern Alliance were busy fighting the Taliban until the 2001 US-led Operation Enduring Freedom in which the Taliban government was toppled.

Freedom was maximised when the government took a " hands off " attitude toward industrial development and supported the value of the currency by freely exchanging paper money for gold.

* In 1991, Powell was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George H. W. Bush.

* On September 30, 1993, Powell was awarded his second Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clinton.

* On November 9, 1993, Powell was awarded the second Ronald Reagan Freedom Award, by President Ronald Reagan.

Freedom to Learn was revised two times.

Crystal Eastman was a noted anti-militarist, who helped found the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

It was replaced after the 1980 elections by a government led by the Dominica Freedom Party under Prime Minister Eugenia Charles, the Caribbeans first female prime minister.

In February 2010, he was named to the Freedom From Religion Foundation's Honorary Board of distinguished achievers.

During the same year, British author George MacDonald Fraser published Flash for Freedom !, the third novel in the Flashman series that was set partially in Dahomey.

* On 23 June 1987, Kaye was posthumously presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Ronald Reagan.

Thomas was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2003.

While in the service, he was assigned to write for the Manila Freedom and Soldier's Letter.

The first, " The Fight for Freedom ", was based on film from a Spanish government documentary Spain and the Fight for Freedom.

Lord and Lady Mountbatten with Muhammad Ali JinnahNotwithstanding the self-promotion of his own part in Indian independence — notably in the television series The Life and Times of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Mountbatten of Burma, produced by his son-in-law Lord Brabourne and Dominique Lapierre, and Larry Collins's Freedom at Midnight ( of which he was the main quoted source ) — his record is seen as very mixed ; one common view is that he hastened the independence process unduly and recklessly, foreseeing vast disruption and loss of life and not wanting this to occur on the British watch, but thereby actually causing it to occur, especially in Punjab and Bengal.