The “Grand Model” constitution was not the result of more thought than was the frame of government which the deeply religions mind of Penn prepared for his province. According to his views, government, like religion, was based on love, and had for its purpose the advancement and happiness of the people, even more than the correction of evil-doers. Although acknowledging in himself the supreme head of the state, “yet for the matters of liberty,” said he, “I purpose that which is extraordinary—to leave myself and successors no power of doing mischief; that the will of one man may not hinder the good of a whole country.” And again, “It is the great end of government to support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from the abuse of power; for liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.” Shaftesbury counselled with Locke, and the intellect of the age produced the “Grand Model;” Penn counselled with Algernon Sidney and his quaker brethren, who, like himself, listened to the Divine Voice within their own souls, and a frame of government suitable to the “Holy Experiment” was the result; and fundamental principles of government were acknowledged, which, though too pure for that age and for that province even, have since become not only the avowed basis of legislature in Pennsylvania, but in Great Britain itself. Truth is immortal, and no “Holy Experiment” is ever tried in vain. According to the proposed constitution, the legislative and executive authority was vested in a council of seventy-two persons, elected by the freemen for three years, one-third to go out annually; the proprietary or his deputy to preside and have a triple vote. Laws thus proposed were to be submitted for approval or rejection to an assembly of freemen. To this frame of government were subjoined forty “fundamental laws,” agreed upon by Penn and his intending emigrants, religious toleration being of course one of these. The words of this provision were:—“All persons living in this province, who confess and acknowledge the one Almighty and Eternal God to be the creator, upholder and ruler of the world, and that hold themselves obliged in conscience to live peaceably and justly in civil society, shall in nowise be molested or prejudiced for their religious persuasion or practice in matters of faith and worship.”