<span>The earliest declaration of freedom of religion was in the Achaemenid Empire in 550BC.</span>
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As chief justice for more than three decades, Marshall had enormous influence in setting many legal precedents that are still used today. Cases such as McCulloch v. Maryland and Gibbons v. Ogden defined federal power and laid the groundwork for economic growth in very basic ways.
C. European religious minorities were persecuted in large numbers.
Eastern Canada hold more older (European) settlements than Western Canada. Eastern Canada was settled by the French and then the English in an effort to expand their terrortories and then resource (fur trade) extraction. The bulk of the original population of these regions are direct descendants of the original settlers and of the "Loyalists" who moved north from the United States when the US became independant from Britain.
