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Max Carter

Max Carter

Nevada State Representative

Jul 2, 2026

4:59
And I might be biased because I live in Pennsylvania, but William Penn was a big part of that intentionality,
5:06
right? Yeah.
5:08
Well, one of the major impacts on the culture and legal structure of what became the United States, of course, is William Penn's Holy Experiment in Pennsylvania.
5:24
And I want to add that some Quaker historians have commented that Holy Experiment can be understood in two ways.
5:36
When Penn received the charter for what became the colony of Pennsylvania from King Charles II in repayment of a debt owed by his father, to his father, that is, he described it as a holy experiment.
5:57
And it's usually understood to be come to Pennsylvania and, you know, look at this experiment in organizing our political and religious and cultural life around Quaker understandings.
6:18
But some say, perhaps given the fact back then that Quakers used the term experiment as experimentally, one new truth experimentally, which we would understand today as experientially.

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23:24
And the Revolutionary War was one of those moments, right? I'm wondering how a people who are generally committed to nonviolence approached a war like this.

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