License

The Pilgrim's Progress was written by John Bunyan while he spent 12 years in prison after being arrested for preaching without ordination by an Anglican bishop. Upon his release in 1672, he apparently agreed to pray to the government for permission to preach as he immediately obtained a licence to preach under the newly created declaration of indulgence.

In 1707, two Presbyterian ministers, Francis Makemie and John Hampton, were arrested for preaching without a license in New York. Charges were ultimately dropped. Lord Cornbury, who was eager to see Anglicanism established as the colonial religion, complained that Makemie was a "Jack of all Trades he is a Preacher, a Doctor of Physick, a Merchant, an Attorney, or Counsellor at Law, and, which is worse of all, a Disturber of Governments." [1]

Videos

• Landmark study details the burdens of occupational licensing laws nationwide
• Stossel: Stop! You Need a License To Do that Job!
• ReasonTV: 'Locked Out': A Hair Braider Fights Occupational Licensing
• Locked Out: Extended
• Barriers to Entrepreneurship: Anti-Trust Implications of Occupational Licensing
• ReasonTV: Nurse Practitioners Can Make Health Care Cheaper (and Doctors Want to Stop Them)
• ReasonTV: Why is California Jailing Landscapers? Don't Cops Have Better Things to Do?!
• Stossel: Tour Guides Under Attack

Articles

• 2017-05-13 FEE: Occupational Licensing is a Scam
• 2017-04-30 FEE - Occupational Licensing Doesn't Protect Who You Think It Protects
• 2017-04-25 Man Fined $500 for Crime of Writing 'I Am An Engineer' in an Email to the Government
• 2016-12-20 Occupational licensing contributes to the cycle of crime.
• 2012-01-05 Why the Supreme Court Should Review Florida’s Absurd Occupational Licensing Scheme for Interior Designers

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