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"The Colony of Pennsylvania was founded upon the pacifist teachings of the Quaker Religion. In fact, the colony was specifically organized to give the Quakers a place to settle and practice their religion without interruption from the other colonies of North America.
This did not mean that Pennsylvania was exempt from some of the conflicts that plagued the other colonies, including problems with the Native American tribes who also lived within the colony, or on lands adjacent to it.
The other colonies responded to such threat of Indian attack by enacting "Militia Laws," by which to formally organize a military presence in their respective colonies to provide defense against such attacks. The Quakers of Pennsylvania, who held a majority in the proprietary government of the colony, resisted the passage of any militia laws because it went against their religious convictions that felt that war and violence were to be avoided at all costs.
Despite the resistance of the Quakers, Pennsylvania would enact several militia laws over the course of the 17th and 18th centuries, but these were often simply ignored, or were established for very short periods of time. This essentially blocked these laws from ever establishing a solid groundwork for the defense of the colony. The first such law, enacted in 1671, stated that…"
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