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Debating – and Creating – Authority: The Failure of a Constitutional Ideal in Massachusetts Bay, 1629-1649 (Routledge Revivals) - Softcover

Dale, Elizabeth

 
9781138724556: Debating – and Creating – Authority: The Failure of a Constitutional Ideal in Massachusetts Bay, 1629-1649 (Routledge Revivals)
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ISBN 10: 1138724556 ISBN 13: 9781138724556
Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Elizabeth Dale, Assistant Professor, US Legal History Department of History, University of Florida, Gainsville, Florida, USA

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138724556
ISBN 13 
9781138724556
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
174