Debating – and Creating – Authority

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Debating – and Creating – Authority is written by Elizabeth Dale and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1351754947 (ISBN 10) and 9781351754941 (ISBN 13).

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.