Colonial Massachusetts Laws and Liberties and the English Commonwealth : State Formation, the Rule of Law, and the People’s Welfare / Charles Edward Smith.
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TextLanguage: English Series: Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2025 | Legal History Library ; 68.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill | Nijhoff, 2024Copyright date: ©2024Description: 1 online resource (480 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
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- State Formation, the Rule of Law, and the People’s Welfare
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- KFM2478
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part 1 -- The English Commonwealth and the Protestant Reformation -- 1 Massachusetts Capital Laws of 1642 -- 2 Education and Radical Religiosity -- Part 2 -- Creating a Legal Aut
On July 4, 1653, the Nominate or Barebones Parliament convened with a minority of committed radicals (Levellers and religious extremists) and a conservative majority of Cromwell’s allies. During acrimonious debates on law reform, the radicals de
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