Roger williams is known in history for to establish a strongly held belief in american culture and politics. what was that belief? that it was deeply sinful for women to assume roles of leadership in the church. that the church and the state should be completely separated. that the local government should adhere to the rulings of the monarchy. that tolerance and respect for native american property rights should be upheld.

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is