Debating – and Creating – Authority
The Failure of a Constitutional Ideal in Massachusetts Bay, 1629-1649| By: | Elizabeth Dale |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9781138724563 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781351754941 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2001 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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.