Debating - And Creating - Authority: The Failure of a Constitutional Ideal in Massachusetts Bay, 1629-1649 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781138724556)

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.

Author: Elizabeth Dale
ISBN-10: 1138724556
ISBN-13: 9781138724556
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 11/04/2019
Pages: 174
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.90w x 0.40d