Author : Elizabeth Dale
Release : 2018-01-12
Genre : Law
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 947/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Debating – and Creating – Authority by : Elizabeth Dale
Download or read book Debating – and Creating – Authority written by Elizabeth Dale. This book was released on 2018-01-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
