"Williams made what in the 17th century was a revolutionary claim: “I infer that the sovereign, original, and foundation of civil power lies in the people.” The governments they establish, he wrote, “have no more power, nor for no longer time, than the civil power or people consenting and agreeing shall betrust them with."
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John M. Barry at The Smithsonian. God, Government and Roger Williams’ Big Idea
Banished from Massachusetts, the Puritan minister originated a principle that remains contentious to this day—separation of church and state
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