Dissenters around to support for Home Rule for Ireland, putting the dissentingProtestants in league with the Irish Catholics in an otherwise unlikely alliance
full-fledged independence. Paine connected independence with common dissentingProtestant beliefs as a means to present a distinctly American political identity
the original colony in 1749 as a home for the various groups of dissentingProtestants who were from New England and who did not follow the Church of England
established Church of England, but the party attracted much support from DissentingProtestants "Whig and Tory". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 23 May 2014. Retrieved