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Debating-- and creating-- authority : the failure of a constitutional ideal in Massachusetts Bay, 1629-1649
- Title
- Debating-- and creating-- authority : the failure of a constitutional ideal in Massachusetts Bay, 1629-1649 / Elizabeth Dale.
- Author
- Dale, Elizabeth.
- Publication
- Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2001.
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Details
- Description
- vi, 167 pages; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "In the tight frame of its first twenty years, Massachusetts Bay dramatically altered its constitutional order. Founded as a theocracy, in which magisterial authority was derived from God and magisterial power strictly limited by divine command, by the end of the 1640s the colony had become 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. Authority in Massachusetts Bay was threatened in a variety of ways until the reforms at the end of the 1640s. This is a comprehensive study that traces the history of these threats to authority and the colony's response to them."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Law, justice, and power series
- Uniform Title
- Law, justice, and power
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- History (form)
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Imagining a Polity -- A System at Odds with Itself -- Crises of Authority -- Failure of Authority -- Authority and Orthodoxy -- Reinterpretations -- Untethering the Beast.
- ISBN
- 075462126X
- 9780754621263
- LCCN
- 00054337
- OCLC
- ocm45700803
- 45700803
- SCSB-1278608
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library