| Debating - And Creating - Authority: The Failure of a Constitutional Ideal in Massachusetts Bay, 1629-1649 Contributor(s): Dale, Elizabeth (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138724564 ISBN-13: 9781138724563 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $118.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2017 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Law |
| Physical Information: (0.70 lbs) 174 pages |
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| Publisher 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. |