<P> The Protestant Revolution ended Maryland's experiment with religious toleration . Religious laws were backed up with harsh sanctions . In the early 18th century Marylanders who "should utter any profane words concerning the Holy Trinity" would find themselves "bored through the tongue and fined twenty pounds" for a first offence . Maryland established the Church of England as its official church in 1702 and explicitly barred Catholics from voting in 1718 . </P> <P> Full religious toleration would not be restored in Maryland until the American Revolution, when Darnall's great - grandson Charles Carroll of Carrollton, arguably the wealthiest Catholic in Maryland, signed the American Declaration of Independence . The United States Constitution would guarantee freedom of worship for all Americans for the first time . </P>

As a result of the glorious revolution religious toleration in maryland continued