Debating – and Creating – Authority The Failure of a Constitutional Ideal in Massachusetts Bay, 1629-1649
Heftet /
2019
/ Engelsk
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ISBN
9781138724556
Published
2019-11-04
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight
320 gr
Height
214 mm
Width
151 mm
Age
U, G, 05, 01
Language
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Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
174
Author
Biographical note
Elizabeth Dale, Assistant Professor, US Legal History Department of History, University of Florida, Gainsville, Florida, USA’...a useful contribution to the literature on Puritan New England.’ Journal of American History
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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First published in 2001 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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Product details
ISBN
9781138724556
Published
2019-11-04
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight
320 gr
Height
214 mm
Width
151 mm
Age
U, G, 05, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
174
Author