Debating – and Creating – Authority The Failure of a Constitutional Ideal in Massachusetts Bay, 1629-1649
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2017
/ Engelsk
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ISBN
9781138724563
Publisert
2017-11-28
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Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
453 gr
Høyde
214 mm
Bredde
151 mm
Aldersnivå
U, G, 05, 01
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Product language
Engelsk
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Antall sider
174
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Elizabeth Dale, Assistant Professor, US Legal History Department of History, University of Florida, Gainsville, Florida, USA
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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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.
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’...a useful contribution to the literature on Puritan New England.’ Journal of American History
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781138724563
Publisert
2017-11-28
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
453 gr
Høyde
214 mm
Bredde
151 mm
Aldersnivå
U, G, 05, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
174
Forfatter