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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Dale, Dale Elizabeth
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.11.2019
• EAN: 9781138724556
• ISBN: 978-1-138-72455-6
• No. of pages: 174
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; LAW / Legal History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, LAW / International, International Law, Legal History, Social Law, Social law and Medical law, Massachusetts;Bay;Oligarchy;Constitutional