Why Puritans Came to America: Freedom When the English came to America to escape religious persecution, things commenced at a shaky start. For example, Puritans fled from England because of religious persecution. They were being physically beaten because of their religious beliefs therefore they attempted to create a Utopia or "City upon a hill" in the New World. There "City upon a hill" began with a government based on religious beliefs. It developed into a …showed first 75 words of 830 total…

…showed last 75 words of 830 total…oday, under the different circumstances, towards everybody the in the same way it did when it was first drafted? The right to bear arms surely must not include automatic weapons. When James Madison constructed the Bill of Rights did he know that it would apply to nearly 225 million people 200 years later? Although these rights of the American people are consistently being modified, the basic right to freedom and liberty will always be there in general.