Debating - and Creating - Authority (e-bog) af Dale, Elizabeth
Dale, Elizabeth (forfatter)

Debating - and Creating - Authority e-bog

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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...
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Forfattere Dale, Elizabeth (forfatter)
Forlag Routledge
Udgivet 12 januar 2018
Længde 174 sider
Genrer 1K
Sprog English
Format epub
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9781351754941
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.