Debating - And Creating - Authority: The Failure of a Constitutional Ideal in Massachusetts Bay, 1629-1649

By Elizabeth Dale

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138724556
• ISBN13: 9781138724556
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.4"