# A Letter Concerning Toleration is a completed public argument that also excludes Catholics and atheists

Date: 1689

## The fact

Twin of Catholic/atheist limits: this stores printed toleration-as-access. The dated public instrument is stored under 1689-03-15. [John Locke](/people/john-locke) did not operate this later page as a civil-registry autograph.

It is one event.

## Context

Shared institutions, unnamed crews, and later editors remain in the record and do not erase a documented heading.

John Locke Shared work with other named actors remains in the record.

John Locke’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Conventional 1632–1704. Dated instruments are Gutenberg TMS-no: Treatises, Essay, Letter, SEP, Bodleian, and TNA catalogues.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file.

## Evidence and sources

A Letter Concerning Toleration — public English and Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Locke on Toleration independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: A Letter Concerning Toleration — public English (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23772; Project Gutenberg).

## Significance

Twin of Catholic/atheist limits: this stores printed toleration-as-access.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by John Locke.

They are not a public rating.

Driver `protection-of-minority-rights` is attached because the Significance sentence names a mechanism from A Letter Concerning Toleration is a completed public argument that also excludes Catholics and atheists at 1689-01-01, not because a standing driver list needed coverage. Official page: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23772. Independent page: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke-toleration/.

## People

- John Locke: https://factrail.ai/people/john-locke

## Drivers

- Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights

## Sources

- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke-toleration/
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23772

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/jlk-letter-toleration