After the restoration of 1660 of the royal domain in England, it was necessary to obtain a Royal Letter from King Charles II. The King was a Catholic supporter in a strongly Protestant England, and he approved the promise of religious freedom of the colony granted the request with the Royal Charter of 1663, joining the four settlements in the Rhode Island colony and the Providence plantations. In the following years, many persecuted groups settled in the colony, especially Quakers and Jews.The Rhode Island colony was very progressive for the time, passing laws that abolished witchcraft trials, debt imprisonment, most of the capital punishment
Gore. In Bush v. Gore (2000), a divided Supreme Court ruled that the state of Florida's court-ordered manual recount of vote ballots in the 2000 presidential election was unconstitutional
The death toll included 265 on the four planes (from which there were no survivors), 2,606 in the World Trade Center and in the surrounding area, and 125 at the Pentagon
