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His outspoken views didn’t go unnoticed. In 1415, he was summoned to the Council of Constance, where he was put on trial for heresy. Hus stood by what he believed and refused to take back his words. He was sentenced to death and burned at the stake. His execution lit the spark for the Hussite movement and a wave of religious conflict across Central Europe.
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Jan Huss, informed by his reading of Wycliffe’s writings, asserts liberty of conscience against institutional coercion, arguing that authority forfeits legitimacy when it contradicts truth and moral law. By insisting that obedience is owed to justice rather than office, he advances a defining principle of free societies: power loses its claim when it silences conscience and punishes truth.