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==Terms of the Test Act==

==Terms of the Test Act==

Originally, the test act only applied to the monarch, and military officials. However, during the popish plot, a fictitious plot that asserted that Catholics were out there to take over England, effectively evicted all Catholics from parliament. Furthermore, it also increased the list of acts considered "popish", including the sacrament. It also made it so that professing a catholic faith a crime punishable by the standard for blasphemy. By evicting the Catholics, from all positions of power, it made Puritanism the faith of England.<ref>test act 2012. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved 15 February, 2012, from http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/588655/test-act</ref>

Originally, the test act only applied to the monarch, and military officials. However, during the popish plot, a fictitious plot that asserted that Catholics were out there to take over England, effectively evicted all Catholics from parliament. Furthermore, it also increased the list of acts considered "popish", including the sacrament. It also made it so that professing a catholic faith a crime punishable by the standard for blasphemy. By evicting the Catholics, from all positions of power, it made Puritanism the faith of England.<ref>test act 2012. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved 15 February 2012, from http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/588655/test-act</ref>