The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flushing_Remonstrance" id="mwNQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Flushing Remonstrance">Flushing Remonstrance</a> articulates for the first time in North American history that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_religion" id="mwNg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Freedom of religion">freedom of religion</a> is a fundamental right.<sup about="#mwt38" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-5"}}' id="cite_ref-5" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_27#cite_note-5" id="mwNw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 5;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwOA">[5]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-5"><cite about="#mwt35" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFHaefeli2012">Haefeli, Evan (2012). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=6REAYXK1HmMC" id="mwB3o" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwB3s">New Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty</i></a>. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. p.<span id="mwB3w" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>169. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwB30" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwB34" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9780812244083" id="mwB38" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9780812244083"><bdi id="mwB4A">9780812244083</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt35" class="Z3988" id="mwB4E" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=New+Netherland+and+the+Dutch+Origins+of+American+Religious+Liberty&amp;rft.place=Philadelphia&amp;rft.pages=169&amp;rft.pub=University+of+Pennsylvania+Press&amp;rft.date=2012&amp;rft.isbn=9780812244083&amp;rft.aulast=Haefeli&amp;rft.aufirst=Evan&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D6REAYXK1HmMC&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+27"></span></span>