Why did William Penn regard his colony as a holy experiment?
William Penn regarded his colony as a “Holy Experiment” because he was founding a place where people of all religions would be able to live, specifically Quakers (his other experimental ideas included generating profit for himself and enacting liberal ideas in government). Being a Quaker himself, Penn wrote a constitution called the Charter of Liberties in 1701, which guaranteed freedom of worship for all people and made immigration unrestricted. This was his way of testing ideas he had created based upon his beliefs.
