Debating - and Creating - Authority
The Failure of a Constitutional Ideal in Massachusetts Bay, 1629-1649
1st Edition
Published on 12. January 2018
174 pages
978-1-351-75494-1 (ISBN)
Description
This title was first published in 2001. In the tight frame of its first twenty years, Massachusetts Bay dramatically altered its constitutional order from a theocracy to an oligarchy, led by magistrates who created their own authority and defined the limits on their almost unlimited power. Debating-and Creating-Authority examines this shift in constitutional order at various levels and looks in particular at the efforts to create the theocracy and its subsequent collapse in terms of a fundamental democratical? flaw at the centre of the theocratic ideal.
Reviews / Votes
'...a useful contribution to the literature on Puritan New England.' Journal of American HistoryMore details
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
1,16 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-351-75494-1 (9781351754941)
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Additional editions
Elizabeth Dale
Debating - and Creating - Authority
The Failure of a Constitutional Ideal in Massachusetts Bay, 1629-1649
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11/2019
1st Edition
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Elizabeth Dale
Debating - and Creating - Authority
The Failure of a Constitutional Ideal in Massachusetts Bay, 1629-1649
Book
11/2017
1st Edition
Routledge
€148.56
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Person
Elizabeth Dale, Assistant Professor, US Legal History Department of History, University of Florida, Gainsville, Florida, USA
Content
Contents: Introduction; Imagining a polity; A system at odds with itself; Crises of authority; Failure of authority; Authority and orthodoxy; Reinterpretations; Untethering the beast; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
